Re: Why jed uses slsh?

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Why should jed search in slsh directories for files? They don't come from
>the same source package. This may lead to unexpected behaviour if slsh is

slsh is more or less a bare-bones interpreter, providing essentually
no intrinsic functions of its own.  The .sl files installed by it
should work with any slang interpreter.  For example, slang2 provides
several useful functions in .../share/slsh/structfuns.sl that slang
apps can get for free by loading this file.  Another example is the
sldb debugger, which apps can load for debugging purposes.  Eventually
something like Dino's debugger will take advantage of this to provide
a debugger for jed.

>installed. And why this depends on the existens of the import() function?

The fact that searching this directory depends upon the existence of
import if historical and should be changed.

I hope this clarifies things a bit.
--John

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