Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

[Felix]

From: Alaric Snell-Pym <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:11:45 +0100

> On 09/12/10 15:49, Felix wrote:
> 
>> But that wouldn't work inside modules, because you would have to
>> have access to the import library, right?
> 
> If there's macros involved, yes - but then autoloading macros makes no
> sense as they're loaded at compile time anyway. When you set up an
> autoload, no compile-time loading happens (no import library, etc) so
> the macros from the library aren't loaded - but at run time, if you
> call
> a procedure imported from the library, then the library is
> run-time-loaded.
> 

Sorry, I can't stop nagging: first, the constructed "<module>#<identifier>"
name will not work for identifiers that are imported from a different
module and then reexported, second: `global-ref' will be deprecated soon.


cheers,
felix