From: Alaric Snell-Pym <ala...@snell-pym.org.uk> Subject: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:03:56 +0100
> > Hi there folks > > I've noticed that the autoload egg goes partway towards solving > Ugarit's > "depends on EVERY hash, compression, and encryption egg" problem. > > For those not familiar with it, the principle is that I can write: > > (autoload z3 z3:encode-buffer z3:decode-buffer) > > ...and only if I actually use the z3:encode-buffer or z3:decode-buffer > functions *at run time* will there be an attempt to load z3.so. But that wouldn't work inside modules, because you would have to have access to the import library, right? cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
