From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] help, i'm in a wet paper bag and I can't get out
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:36:17 +0100
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> One of the problems the monolithic perl script had was that to add
> functionality they had to kill the bot, change the script and then log in
> again.

to bang on (so to speak) about my personal favourite hammer, this is
something that limbo is well suited for, as it provides dynamic loading
& unloading of modules trivially.

	if ((mod := lookupmod(name)) == nil) {
		mod = load IRCbot "/dis/ircbots/" + name;
		if (mod == nil) {
			sys->fprint(stderr, "cannot find module %s: %r\n", name);
			return;
		}
		stashmod(name, mod);
	}
	mod->functionality();