From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26116 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2008 14:34:01 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Jul 2008 14:34:01 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 32526 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2008 14:33:55 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 17 Jul 2008 14:33:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 15192 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2008 14:33:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 25303 Received: (qmail 15179 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2008 14:33:51 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 17 Jul 2008 14:33:51 -0000 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.245]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771F980561C4 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:33:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so174744ana.13 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:33:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=57SFRRZ/dWNYCAu/gCb17fKOqhTdzHk6SWgQ3oxjTqg=; b=VdWT5324wJpM6NyLhFrIICvuTpQTeJ4R2tOTGxXxvKveP97yGchGuQdJLQiV+/j2R2 EUF2fAoif6TPBOfFT1kpewPU8eQVFWteOcXDtHy7hoA0iHYLcdoTan+mGmEW/OYJHvgv +K9bPHvADEUz5sRhuBI4J+HqPNMnmtjoxKnyg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=k9OO/8SgNld/EthsQgAA0Hb8FrDQiKnx/qLFSZjlbKt8Jdwe9deQmDp5ytDAsjau06 vkt14W9F6dlxP8+WTMtRbRHhv221F/895j6fHMCHfOiy3Z3dDvnHheBJolJpthdiMXsp urfoiHdyINDM/iwQcqkoIsnFJen5XQvkyfH+M= Received: by 10.100.128.20 with SMTP id a20mr4108486and.153.1216305223197; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.43.19 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2d460de70807170733y2be33d9q9b81a0f509e3df41@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:33:43 +0200 From: "Richard Hartmann" To: "Bart Schaefer" Subject: Re: Feature suggestion for autoload Cc: "Zsh hackers list" In-Reply-To: <080717064320.ZM12597@torch.brasslantern.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2d460de70807151010m344b9a7dmeaca569f538b51c8@mail.gmail.com> <080715183948.ZM10577@torch.brasslantern.com> <2d460de70807161644u483c2c33l53734590710102d6@mail.gmail.com> <20080717100524.517305ed@news01> <2d460de70807170624t91ccf21i87ab6132210ebe42@mail.gmail.com> <080717064320.ZM12597@torch.brasslantern.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7736/Thu Jul 17 15:11:09 2008 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 15:43, Bart Schaefer wrote: > If/when we have ksh-style discipline functions, we can make it a side- > effect of adding something to fpath that all the files therein get > fed to autoload. >>From what google tells me, ksh disciplines are 'methods' for the 'object' of a variable? Another way of putting it would be that they resemble hooks for variable handling? Sounds like a nice, and powerful, concept. > (Not that we should have that happen by default, but it would make a > good example.) Aye. Having something like this happen by default would probably manage to break a lot of installations in weird ways. Richard