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Article #271Re: bash and FPATH
From: Ian Dickinson
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:48
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:48
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In article <FRIEDMAN.92Aug8193038@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes: > My version is also, IMHO, more correct in that it does the "lazy" >evaluation your implementation lacks. The point of autoload is to be >relatively inexpensive until you actually try to run the command. Your >version is always expensive because it looks for the source file when you >call autoload. Any chance this can be provided in the example with bash-1.13 ? > I also have a version of "load" and a require/provide set of functions >which use FPATH. In fact, "load" is just a "source" that uses FPATH >instead of PATH, the way "source" should have been implemented in the first >place (though this isn't bash's fault. Blame it on the standards). Standards. There are so many to choose from :-( Cheers, -- \/ato - Ian Dickinson - NIC handle: ID17 Yo! Bum vato@csv.warwick.ac.uk ...!mcsun!uknet!warwick!vato rush /I=I/S=Dickinson/OU=CSV/O=Warwick/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/ the @c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson show
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Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!warwick.ac.UK!cudep From: cudep@warwick.ac.UK (Ian Dickinson) Subject: Re: bash and FPATH Message-ID: <7jynbmwf@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn References: <9208061446.AA24943.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:48:37 GMT Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 23