What's the difference between load and require?

[vitto]

I've tested a demo with a simple key press showed with a text on game window and it works in both cases:

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-- a file with load
love.filesystem.load("keypress.lua")()

-- a file with require
require "keypress"

what's the difference?

[Azhukar]

http://www.lua.org/pil/8.1.html

love.filesystem.load(file)() provides similar functionality as dofile in the lua manual.