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- Subject: No lfs for 5.2 yet?
- From: Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:41:25 +0200
I'm sorely missing lfs for Lua 5.2.
The app does this:
- for every file in a directory, try to run it as Lua code
- if successful, make a table of everything it adds to its environment
and store that (indexed by the filename) in another table `catalog`
Part 1 needs lfs, but lfs is only available up to Lua 5.1.
Part 2 is easiest with Lua 5.2's version of load: run the file contents in
an empty environment and that's the required table.
The Lua 5.1 code for Part 2 is truly horrid: I make a table called `snapshot`
with the current global names, run the file, identify the new keys by
checking which global names do not occur in `snapshot`, record them in a new
table (that's the one for the catalog) and delete them from _ENV.
Dirk