[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51688] support for "import" keyword

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #51688 (project octave):

Rik: Symbols are just tree_identifier objects.  That's all the parser creates
for them.  The final binding of a symbol doesn't happen until evaluation.  It
must be this way to handle changes in loadpath and other things that can
happen dynamically.  I think it should also be possible to do things like
this:

function foo (flag)
  if (flag)
    import pkg.*;
  end
  bar ();  %% global function bar?  pkg.bar?  Who knows?
end

and the particular "pkg" that you get could further depend on the  contents of
the loadpath (there could even be more than one "+pkg" directory; which one
you find depends on loadpath order).

Mike: No, I haven't given that much thought.  I would just be happy to have it
working for Octave +packages.

Meta comment:  This language blows.


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