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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  1 Feb 2009 08:02:18 -0500
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released
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On Sun Feb  1 06:57:13 EST 2009, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > well, i say "modules", but of course the language pre-dates
> > them. people pretend.  it uses import/export tables with type signatures.
> > those are stashed in the a.out (viz. DYN_MAGIC in a.out.h)
> > so they stay together.
>
> It's not what the OP suggested.  Nor are Nemo's reservation valid.
> We're talking about loading source modules into an interpreter.  This
> means that different modules may be loaded, sometimes even by the same
> instruction and that libraries are not terribly significant unless the
> invoker gets the sequence wrong, which is a programming error.

not true.  this is the original quote.

> Dynamic loading allows scripting languages to load arbitrary binary
> extensions at run-time.  Without dynamic loading in Plan 9 you need to

- erik