[Lua][Error] lua:27: [string "lua"]:1: '<name>' expected [SOLVED]

What does this error mean??
It occurs after trying to load an self-written API from lua prompt.

Without seeing the code you enter we can't tell you that.

I said that it's the result of "os.loadAPI("…")".
The API is my own and almost 1000 lines of code, which I don't want to post yet.

I just like to know, if this refers to a concrete syntax error.
Don't know, why the error occurs in/refers to "lua" (what's that?) and not in/to my API code.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

It's shameful, but I just entered "os.loadAPI.("…")".
This doesn't produce the often seen "attempt to call nil" when mistyping a function name.
And of course, "lua" refers to the lua interpreter that fails to interpret the user input correctly.

Maybe this helps others to find this error more quickly, as it's easy to miss/over-look.

SilentPro, on 10 August 2012 - 06:49 PM said:

PROBLEM SOLVED!

It's shameful, but I just entered "os.loadAPI.("…")".
This doesn't produce the often seen "attempt to call nil" when mistyping a function name.
And of course, "lua" refers to the lua interpreter that fails to interpret the user input correctly.

Maybe this helps others to find this error more quickly, as it's easy to miss/over-look.

The Lua interpreter isn't failing to interpret the user input - the user input will be wrong ;)/>/>

He fails in guiding me to the origin of the error! ;)/>/>

Because he just can't parse the input and don't know why himself.
Or the programmer was just too lazy to implement meaningful error messages…

But the failure was clearly on my side in the first place (like most of the times), as computers work very reliably. :(/>/>