On Sun Feb 1 06:57:13 EST 2009, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > well, i say "modules", but of course the language pre-dates > > them. people pretend. it uses import/export tables with type signatures. > > those are stashed in the a.out (viz. DYN_MAGIC in a.out.h) > > so they stay together. > > It's not what the OP suggested. Nor are Nemo's reservation valid. > We're talking about loading source modules into an interpreter. This > means that different modules may be loaded, sometimes even by the same > instruction and that libraries are not terribly significant unless the > invoker gets the sequence wrong, which is a programming error.
not true. this is the original quote. > Dynamic loading allows scripting languages to load arbitrary binary > extensions at run-time. Without dynamic loading in Plan 9 you need to - erik
