Re: lua source as config file

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 08, 2007, at 23:46, Doug Rogers wrote:

> PA wrote:
> > function config( aPath )
> >         local aChunck = setfenv( loadfile( aPath ), {} )
> >         return getfenv( aChunck, aChunck() )
> > end
> > Thoughts?
>
> I like this. The only drawback is that in operational code you will 
> have
> to catch any errors raised by loadfile(). It also makes config()
> unusable after such an error...

Hmmm... yes... very unfortunate... but as Roberto mentioned somewhere 
else in this thread... a well placed assert should prevent such a 
disaster:

function config( aPath )
        local aChunk = setfenv( assert( loadfile( aPath ) ), {} )

        return getfenv( aChunk, aChunk() )
end