Re: load, loadfile etc

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 03/08/2011 14.45, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > Instead of adding functionality to 'loadfile', another way could
> > be to extend 'load' further to accept an opened file as argument,
> > i.e. the following would be equivalent:
> >
> >      loadfile "xxx"
> >      load(io.open "xxx")
> >
> > What is the main argument against this?
>
> Try this:
> 	load(io.lines"xxx")
Just to be sure: is load(io.lines "xxx") equivalent to loadfile "xxx" 
right now? (Both 5.1.4 and 5.2?)

Or is loadfile somewhat optimized for the task it does?

TIA
-- Lorenzo