Re: reverse of autoload

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at 03:43PM, "Carlo de Falco" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I thought that that all functions belonging to a package would become  
>undefined when the package is unloaded,
>but it seems that this is not completely true, for example:
>
> >> pkg load combinatorics
> >> which partcnt
>partcnt is the dynamically-linked function from the file
>/Users/carlo/octave/combinatorics-1.0.7/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1-api-v32/ 
>partint.oct
> >> pkg unload combinatorics
> >> partcnt(6)
>ans =  11
> >> which partcnt
>partcnt is the dynamically-linked function from the file
>/Users/carlo/octave/combinatorics-1.0.7/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1-api-v32/ 
>partint.oct
> >> clear partcnt
> >> which partcnt
>partcnt is the dynamically-linked function from the file
>/Users/carlo/octave/combinatorics-1.0.7/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1-api-v32/ 
>partint.oct
> >> partcnt(6)
>ans =  11
>
>This is because "partcnt" is mapped to the DLD file "partint.oct" by  
>an "autoload" command in a "PKG_ADD" file.
>In the case of the particular exmple I have chosen this is not a big  
>deal, but this behaviour could be very annoying in the case of  
>packages that overwrite some core functions..
>
>Is there a way of removing an item from the autoload map?
>
>Thanks,
>Carlo

Prior to loading the package, was the directory, 
/Users/carlo/octave/combinatorics-1.0.7/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1-api-v32/ , 
already in your path?

Is it in your path after "pkg unload combinatorics"?

Ben