On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Joachim Schimpf wrote: > Andrew John Sadler wrote: > > and if it should (as it does), shouldn't the module expansion then > > be done at run-time? > > You are right, we could in pricinple turn the call into a metacall > and do all the work at runtime. But I'd prefer not to have such > a significant performance difference caused just by putting > the :- lib(ic) in the wrong place. I'd rather stick to > requiring declaration before use. Any opinions? I don't think it's unreasonable to require the loading of a library to be textually before its first use in a file. Unless somebody can think of a counter-example? Cheers, WarwickReceived on Tue Aug 28 14:34:57 2001
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