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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> My proposal is basically to change require to call the module with args.
>
> Let's say your module looks like this:
> print(...)
>
> The current require() does this:
>
>> require("mymod","with","args")
> mymod
>
> My proposal is to make it do this:
>
>> require("mymod","with","args")
> mymod    with    args
>
> (PS: Obviously when using require with args it should reload the module
> instead of using the loaded one)

This is a very, very common request. Unfortunately, the issue of
caching the module makes it complicated.

Here's one example of a thread:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-11/msg00178.html

/s/ Adam