On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:05 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, it's nothing functionally important, but I was wondering what the
> "p" initial was for, as it's used everywhere as the returned value by
> modules.
"package", I believe. As noted, nothing actually requires that the variable
be named "p", that's just the convention. For that matter, nothing requires
the variable even exist. You could have a module return the method table
directly, like
return {
hello = function () return "Hello, world!" end
}
and that would be valid. But for a long module that might get hard to read,
and wouldn't allow one method to call another if necessary.
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:40 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Where? In the reference manual, it's `p` which is used. Should it be
> updated with `_module`?
>
> But I'm affraid that could lead to confusion for beginners when the
> console require to use `p`.
> What about alliasing `p` with `_module`, and even `m` in the scribunto
> console?
Let's not overcomplicate everything. If someone would rather use "_module"
or "m" in the console, they can always enter "_module = p" or the like
before starting their testing.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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