Re: Removal of autoloads via module name only

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> zmodload allows you to say "zmodload -ab foo" which will mark buitin
> "foo" to be autoloaded from module "foo".  This has been useless for
> zsh's own modules since we put them in the namespace zsh/...; none of
> the four autoloadable features allow slashes and we don't do any
> automatic mangling on module or feature names (nor do I think we
> should).

This isn't quite true, as I just discovered from a test in V01zmodload.ztst:

alias -A example=zsh/example
zmodload -ab example

used to work.  But I'm prepared to gloss over that if you are.

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