From: "Glenn M. Lewis" <glenn@...>
Date: 2003-03-08T15:32:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a way to 'unload' a script/module/class ?

Hi Matz!

	You are aware that Tcl does this, right?
At work, we develop C++ plugins for Tcl that get pulled in with its
'package' mechanism, and then unload them, recompile, and load them
back in again, all without having to restart the main application.
This works wonders for developers, especially when the startup time
of the application could be very large due to loading of large amounts
of data.

	Granted, this is on Linux and HPUX... I'm not sure if Tcl
can handle this on other platforms.
							-- Glenn

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Is there a way to 'unload' a script/module/class ?"
>     on 03/03/07, "Glenn M. Lewis" <glenn@gmlewis.com> writes:
> 
> |What if the loaded module is a "*.so" or "*.dll" file?
> |Will this still work?
> 
> No.  There's no portable way to unload dynamic library.
> 
> 							matz.
> 
>