Re: Packaging and importing

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Javier Guerra wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 5:27 pm, Chris Marrin wrote:
>
> > Does it have to be done at compile time? Couldn't the import function
> > simply iterate over all the members of math and put them in the local
> > namespace? Or is that not possible somehow?
>
>
> i think locals, like fuction parameters, have no run-time names; only numbered 
> slots

I am using the wrong term. When I say "locals" I mean properties of the 
"local namespace", which is the environment being used by a particular 
function. So, if I have module 'a' and I want to import some or all of 
its properties into the environment of a function, I would just copy the 
property references from the module to the environment. They are both 
just tables, right?

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