Re: Putting version information, description, copright into modules

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 01:52PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > The manual says "names", not "variables".
> > 
> > I'm sorry to be dense, but I don't see what you mean. Is a "name" simply
> > a toplevel variable? Does it mean something more specific here?
> 
> name == identifier. It can be a global variable name, a field name,
> a parameter name, a local variable name, etc. All names are names :-)

Ok. Unfortunately both of your responses are too cryptic for me. I don't
know if you're answering my original question. And if you are answering,
I don't know what your answer is.

My thinking is that even though my module exports a table with an
identifier, a name, __VERSION, it's ok because that identifier is
namespaced within any program that imports (requires) it. (It's a field in
a table that no Lua-Rio code touches directly.)

Thus, even though the manual appears to say this is bad, there can't be any
actual conflict in practice.

Am I wrong? Or were you just commenting on my imprecise use of variable
instead of name?

Thanks, Peter
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