Re: Patch for autoload.v3 to allow export of function

[Matthew Persico]

Greetings!

I have finally gotten around to working on autoload again to ensure that
there are no issues. But I have a question about the _AUTOLOADS array,
which is used to track what has been autoloaded and is the source of
information for the -p command.

The code executes a linear scan of the array _AUTOLOADS each time it has to
find and element for removal or to make sure it is not about to add a
duplicate entry. This is hardly very efficient. Would it be OK to convert
that to an associative array (hash to us Perlers) indexed on function name?

I ask before submitting the patch because I am worried about backward
compatibility; I do not know when hashes were added to bash nor do I know
what the policy is about how far back compatibility has to be maintained.

Thank you!


-- 
Matthew O. Persico