From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
To: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: ksh autoloading
Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:15:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pzpvwlurpk.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11717.199703261746@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:46:21 GMT, Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> said:
>
> The new scheme is that when a list has been read from the file and parsed,
> it is examined to see if it is *in its entirety* a definition of the
> function being loaded. If it is, then the contents of that definition
> is used, rather than the complete list. This has much better defined
> semantics than the old method.
One of the nicest things about the ksh semantics are that you can define
the function plus run some initialization code. It sounds like your
patch will disallow that.
--
Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-03-27 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-26 17:46 Zefram
1997-03-27 18:15 ` Roderick Schertler [this message]
1997-03-27 18:36 ` Zefram
1997-03-27 18:57 ` Roderick Schertler
1997-03-27 19:11 ` Zefram
1997-04-01 0:08 Zefram
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