Re: zsh libs

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello,
> 
> Few days ago, Nikolai Weibull told us about autoload to deal with
> namespaces. I'm trying to use this tips for my own libs.
> 
> I load my new lib with autoload -U but when i execute the function for
> the first time, it wasn't executed.
> 
> does anyone knows why ?
> 
> 
> > fpath+=$PWD
> > cat ldap/new
> #autoload ldap/read ldap/write ldap/new
> 
> ldap/new  ()  { print "new ..."  }
> ldap/read  () { print "reading ..."  }
> ldap/write () { print "writting ..." }

In zsh's standard form of autoload the file contains just the function
body, so that all that happens when it's first executed is that the
functions contained inside are defined.  This is different from other
shells.

However, it's simple to convert the file you've got:  just add

  ldap/new "$@"

to the end of the file.

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