An easy way is to just define your functions in a table, and at the end of the file to be required, return the table. This was the pattern used in Lua before 5.

An easy way is to just define your functions in a table, and at the end of the file to be required, return the table. This was the pattern used in Lua before 5.1. The source for Luacov provides a clear example: https://github.com/keplerproject/luacov/blob/master/src/luacov.lua https://github.com/keplerproject/luacov/blob/master/src/luac...