Theo Van Dinter writes:
> TVD_STOCK_02
>
> all of my ham hits are mails talking about spams, which I probably should
> delete from the corpus. :|
yeah, deffo. my hit, in full:
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Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>I suspect that all of the code that actually uses defined %symbol::table::
>isn't strictly worried about all the internals - what they want to know is
>if any packages beneath have been loaded=20
That is what I once used it for in Tk.
But only use I can find with grep in current sources is in a toy=20
demo class browser.
>(or more broadly, if there are any
>symbols defined).
>
>So I think (yet another) solution would be to change the op generator so t=
hat
>defined %symbol::table:: doesn't create *symbol::{HASH}->{"table::"}
>I've no idea if this is easy, or even viable.
>
>(I'm assuming that the runtime ops would still work as is, which might be
>wrong).
>
>Another solution is to find a different place to hide the xhv_name.
Can we instead find a place to hide an "is defined" bit?
and change defined %symbol::table:: to look there?
If we can tell its a stash then what we want is a non-vivifying=20
keys %symbol::table:: =3D=3D 0
>
>Nicholas Clark
