Why is Require considered unsafe?

[falseprophet]

I want to separate my script sources into a neatly packaged.. package so everything is easily readable.

When I use require "foo/bar.lua" I receive:

ERROR: server_main.lua:1: Unsafe function was called.

I'm just curious as to why I cannot use require for a server side script.

[eAi]

You can do the same with meta.xml. Require would let you load a file from an arbitrary path.

[qaisjp]

What is Require?

[falseprophet]

You can do the same with meta.xml. Require would let you load a file from an arbitrary path.

Wouldn't variable data be lost in the process, though? I mainly want to throw all of my variables / tables / arrays / what not in a secondary file and label it as an include.

[SDK]

You don't need to, global variables can be shared between script files in the same resource(but only on the same side: server-server and client-client)

[falseprophet]

Interesting, that would be useful, then.

[eAi]

Have a look how some of the standard resources are set up - many of them are split over a number of different files.