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It is great that Perl 5 now has this feature - I am still expecting to see
such a feature in Tcl 4 or 5 as well.  My point was that folks planning
a new GNU Scheme should plan on also providing such a feature as well.
With the ability to auto load both object libraries AND externally written
{plug in your favorite language interpreter here} files, one gets quite
a productivity boost.


Of course, the real problem is how to do this across all platforms - how
does Perl handle all the different Unix, MS-DOS, etc. limitations on
dynamically loaded objects?  (I have the Perl5 tech doc printed - it's
just that my speed reading skills keep getting cancelled out by kids
wanting my attention...)
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