Re: zsh 5.0.2-test-1 is available

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 8,  4:11pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} It seems to me it's equally not an error to mark zstat as a builtin from
} zsh/stat if it's already loaded as a builtin from zsh/stat.  It would
} only be an error if there's a conflict.
} 
} That's how "autoload" works, after all: it can't check for a conflict
} (without major faff) but it does check if a function's already loaded.


I'm confused; these statements seem contradictory, so I must be missing
something.  If we can't check for a conflict, how can we suppress the
error message?  I.e., how do we know that zstat is already loaded as a
builtin from the same module we're now loading?