Rick McGuire wrote:
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> Libraries are NOT the same as ooRexx files loaded via ::requires.
> They don't have the concept of
> "public_routines" and "public_classes" Libraries don't even define
> "classes", only the code backing methods
> that can be used in class definitions. A ::requires LIBRARY merely
> ensures that an external
> library is a vailable and is loaded befere the program starts
> executing. The routines in the library
> are GLOBAL, not PUBLIC, which is a concept that only applies to
> routines created using
> ::ROUTINE in another Rexx source package.
>
O.K. so for using the same terms and to not mixing-up concepts I would
use the term "library" for (global) routines loaded from native code,
and "package" for "Rexx source package" for routines and classes defined
in a Rexx program that gets called or required and which public routines
and public classes are accessible thereafter.
So there are two different sets of questions then.
Questions ad libraries:
* is it possible to learn which global routines are present (loaded) ?
* is it possible to learn which libraries are present (loaded) ?
Questions ad packages:
* using one interpreter instance to execute one Rexx program "D.rex"
that requires a package (e.g. named "DEF.rex"), that defines
public routines and public classes,
* after the program "D.rex" ended and using the same interpreter
instance to execute another Rexx program "G.rex": are the public
routines and classes from the previously required "DEF.rex"
visible available to "G.rex", although the package "DEF.rex" was
required by a different program "D.rex" that ran before invoking
"G.rex"?
If "package" would not be the right term for "Rexx source package", what
term should be used instead?
---rony
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