[m-dev.] special module initialisation code

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Apr-2000, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Peter: AFAICT after looking through all the macro definitions, the
> first time initRep() is called it just sets a whole lot of static
> variables to 0.  Since these variables should be automatically
> initialised to zero anyway, is there any reason why the initial call
> to initRep() is needed?

Since the answer to that turned out to be no, I guess that solves your
problem.  So I suggest that we apply a lazy evaluation approach to the
proposed support for special module initialisation code, i.e. we wait
until someone really needs it.

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