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Add "extern" keyword for loading large constants #319

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robdockins opened this issue Apr 5, 2016 · 5 comments
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Add "extern" keyword for loading large constants #319

robdockins opened this issue Apr 5, 2016 · 5 comments
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As discussed in the comments on issue #100.
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@acfoltzer acfoltzer added this to the Someday milestone Jun 29, 2016
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The new evaluator will make this more feasible. Let's investigate further

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yav commented Jun 21, 2019

The proposal discussion starts here:

#100 (comment)

@yav yav added language Changes or extensions to the language and removed feature request Asking for new or improved functionality labels Jun 25, 2019
@atomb atomb added the low-hanging fruit For issues that should be easy to fix label Oct 25, 2019
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This won't be very hard to implement, but we'll probably wait until we have a pressing need for this feature before we do anything.

@brianhuffman brianhuffman added the design needed We need to specify precisely what we want label Sep 23, 2020
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If we implement an FFI feature (#1090) that might include some kind of extern support for bitvectors or byte arrays.

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With :readByteArray available in the REPL, there's not too much need for extern constants. We can always pretty-print loaded constants in the REPL and then paste the result into a source file as a workaround. Closing for now.

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