Utils

Require

If the concord folder is in the root directory of your game, you can import this module like so:

Utils = require('concord.utils')

error

Raises a formatted error.

Utils.error( level, str, ... )

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
level	integer	Error level passed to error(), plus one
str	string	Format string
...	any	Format arguments

shallowCopy

Copies keys from orig into target. Existing keys in target are overwritten.

matches = Utils.shallowCopy( orig, target )

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
orig	table	Table to copy from
target	table	Table to copy into

Returns

Name	Type	Description
matches	table	target

loadNamespace

Requires files and stores them in a namespace table.

Accepts a table of require paths: {“path/to/file_1”, “path/to/another/file_2”, “etc”} Accepts a path to a directory of Lua files: “my_files/here” Directory loading uses love.filesystem and requires LÖVE. If namespace is omitted, files are still required and this function returns nil.

Utils.loadNamespace( pathOrFiles, namespace )

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
pathOrFiles	string|table	A directory path or a table of require paths
namespace	table	Table that will hold the required files

Returns

Name	Type	Description
	table|nil	namespace The namespace table