Re: forwarded message from Paul Campbell

From: Shalom Bresticker (r50386@email.sps.mot.com)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 23:16:24 PST

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Paul Campbell wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Also in existing (pre V2000) implementations things
are a little more complex
<br>than this - you can think of as being like this - 'work' is populated
with 2
<br>classes of modules - ones that are searched for top level modules and
ones
<br>that aren't (introduced by the +v - what we currently consider as
<br>'libraries') while this is currently implementation specific it's probably
<br>appropriate to allow this sort of behavior for backwards compatability.</blockquote>
This behavior is deliberate and logical, I think.
<p>A library module is compiled only if it is needed, i.e., if it
is instanciated.
<p>On the other hand, a non-library module is compiled always.
<br>If it is not instanciated anywhere, it is a top-level module.
<p>That behavior is an inherent difference, in my opinion.
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