Re: WANTED: POSIX compatible getopt

[David Given <dg@...>]

Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
[...]
> I'd like to somehow separate (visually) code in a module into two
> sections: export (list of exported functions, variables etc.) and
> implementation (internals that should not be used outside this
> module).  Is there naming conventions for this in Lua?

That's normally done by scoping; internal functions are defined as local
variables rather than as module members.

local function internalfn(...)
end

function externalfn(...)
  internalfn(...)
end

This also has the advantage of being faster and using less memory, too.

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