Re: Putting version information, description, copright into modules

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
> > The other thing to note is that fields starting with '_' are customarily
> > reserved. From http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.1:
> > "As a convention, programs should avoid creating names that start with an
> > underscore followed by one or more uppercase letters (such as _VERSION)."
> 
> This has come up more than once in this thread, so here's a question:
> 
> 	Do people think that variables of this kind are a bad idea even
> 	when they're namespaced under the exported module's table?
> 
> 	That is, I use names *exactly* like _VERSION, but not in the
> 	toplevel environment. Does this still violate the spirit of the
> 	manual's injunction or is it fine?

The manual says "names", not "variables".

-- Roberto