How to access the control table of the function "require"?

[Forummer]

Oh my bad, I wasn’t sure what you were referring to. This is a fairly well documented issue.

Function 'require' caching on command bar

I’m not sure if this is a ‘bug’ per-se, but I would call it an undesired result. When testing my ModuleScripts in Studio, I like to execute them on the command bar using ‘require.’ However, after one usage of a ModuleScript, any other uses of the ModuleScript seem to all be the same instance of the first time it was required. Thus I cannot test changes I made to the ModuleScript unless I either test it in Solo or reopen the place in Studio. Easy way to replicate it would be to create a ModuleS…

The work around is to just launch a testing session of the game, or delete the ModuleScript and re-create it. Another approach is to convert the module into a constructor function which returns an object that inherits all of the module’s functions and properties.

local Module = {}

function Module.new()
	return setmetatable({}, {__index = Module})
end

return Module

Each call to Module.new() will return a new object that inherits the module script’s contents.