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Re: ksh autoloading

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From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ksh autoloading
Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:15:19 -0500
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
References: <11717.199703261746@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:46:21 GMT, Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx

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