Re: luaopen_* error message

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

Peter Cawley wrote:
> Section 7 of the manual ("Incompatibilities with the Previous
> Version") covers it fairly well at the moment:
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#7.3
>   
True. I guess I missed that. I guess I subscribe to a 
document-everywhere philosophy: If 90% of the time a particular error 
message has a particular cause, then I like to put that cause right in 
the message: "no environment; are you calling a luaopen_* function 
directly from C?" All-in-all, it didn't take me longer than 15 minutes 
of searching to find the answer and fix it, but other less stubborn 
users will see a confusing error message like that and either post a 
question to the list or, more likely, just give up. But if it's not a 
priority, I understand. It depends on your documentation/error message 
philosophy, and your attitude toward beginners. And I'm not here to try 
to change the documentation philosophy, so I'll shut up now.  ;)

Tim