Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 09/13/10 07:52, Felix wrote:

> When the toplevel variable passed to `autoload' refers to a module
> binding, then you have to import it, otherwise it refers to an
> undecorated toplevel variable.

I've just taken a look at how autoload works. Basically:

(autoload foo bar)

expands into something roughly like:

(define bar (lambda args
        (require foo)
        (let ((tmp (global-ref foo#bar)))
             (set! bar tmp)
             (apply tmp args))))

...with some extra stuff in to handle conditions arising and all that.

If there's anything fatally wrong with this approach, please say now, as
it *seems* to be working OK for Ugarit ;-)

ABS

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