Re: [Haskell-cafe] Error Calling Lua Function

2010-10-23 Thread aditya siram
That worked. Thank you! -deech On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen < claudiusmaxi...@goto10.org> wrote: > Hi Aditya, > > The problem is not that the file was not loaded, but that in Lua, loading a > file only loads it and does not execute it; Lua is a "dynamic" language, by > wh

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Error Calling Lua Function

2010-10-23 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Hi Aditya, The problem is not that the file was not loaded, but that in Lua, loading a file only loads it and does not execute it; Lua is a "dynamic" language, by which I mean that definitions are created through execution. Attached is a simple example, note that there is no proper error che

[Haskell-cafe] Error Calling Lua Function

2010-10-22 Thread aditya siram
Hi all, I'm having some issues calling Lua functions from Haskell. I have the following in "Haskell2Lua.lua": function hello () return "hello world" end And my Haskell file "Haskell2Lua.hs" looks like this: import qualified Scripting.Lua as Lua main = do l <- Lua.newstate Lua.openlib