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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: priority of execution
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:58:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f78f01b2-67c8-ecb8-e90b-79f2f7df8054@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dda0e27e5b29798a968f4282c9e7ec9925c5f72d.camel@ntlworld.com>


On 2022-10-25 11:36, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Yes, just to be helpful. You'll see once the function has been
> autoloaded, it's just a normal function, and if you define a normal
> function with that name the autoload flag just vanishes.

Right, I've done the experiment, whence is exactly up to date on that.  
But it is helpful.


> It's
> really ordering rather than precedence.  If the function's already defined
> it's not autoloadable, and it'll ignore attempts to make it so unless
> you undefine it first.  Autoloading is just an instruction about how to
> get the function if it's not there, it's not really a type of function
> at all.

Thanks Peter, that's all quite clear and logical.



>
> pws
>
>


      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-25 15:47 Ray Andrews
2022-10-25 16:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-10-25 17:17   ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-25 18:36     ` Peter Stephenson
2022-10-25 21:58       ` Ray Andrews [this message]

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