love.filesystem.load() not working

[EliterScripts]

on the mac OS X, using "love.filesystem.load("main.lua")()" in my code does not work. I've tried using it in an if statement within love.update(), and now I'm trying it in love.quit(). Can someone please explain to me \, why it doesn't work. It doesn't error, but it SHOULD restart the game, defaulting all the variables, and everything.

[Robin]

No.

The game loop is love.run(), and when that returns, LÖVE shuts down. Reloading main.lua doesn't change anything about that.

You can call love.load() instead. If you've set up things correctly, that will reset everything to how things were at the beginning.