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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
        "PATCH: failed autoload" (Jul  1,  7:25pm)
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On Jul 1,  7:25pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} It can't be correct that if an autoload fails beacause of a syntax error
} that the function returns 0.
} 
} I don't see how it can be useful to define the function with an empty
} function body, either.
} 
}      if (!prog)
} -	prog = &dummy_eprog;

I'm sure there was a reason for this, at one time.  It was introduced in
zsh-workers/9332 by Sven, with the log message "Use word code instead of
structs for passing executable chunks around."