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Re: Feature suggestion for autoload



On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 15:43, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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



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