Re: RFC: A new name for functions in package.loaders

["Jérôme Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2007/10/11, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:
> > >   http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-package.loaders
> >
> > Oh, thanks for that pointer, I reread so often the 'require' and
> > 'module' manual entries that I forgot to check other parts of the
> > manual. I'll use 'searcher' since it's in the manual (unless you plan
> > to change that anytime soon).
>
> This material is more or less recent (e.g., it is not in the printed
> version). We do not plan to change those names anytime soon.

It would be nice to replace package.loaders with package.searchers in
a future version, or eventually have both point to the same table for
backward compatibility.