Re: Hyphens in module names & -l option

"'Michal Domonkos' via lua-l" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 10:22:44 PM UTC+2 Roberto Ierusalimschy 
wrote:

If we go along this line, then commit 65434b4d also broke compatibility, 
at it disallowed module names that contain '='. 

When the documentation says "global 'mod'", it is implicit that 'mod' is 
a valid global name. The fact that _G["lua-utf8"] worked before is a bug, 
not a feature.


Ack, thanks for clarifying.

Michal 
 

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