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From: billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (William C Wickes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: User-defined libraries: how?
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Date: 19 Mar 90 19:12:36 GMT
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Alonzo's reply is a bit overstated.  A library is in effect a compiled
directory, in which variable names have been replaced by a hash table for
faster access.  Access to the library's objects is then provided by
XLIB name objects rather than global names.

Libraries may also contain message tables, nameless objects, and configuration
code.

If you change the "prolog" code of an arbitrary object into that of a library,
the result won't have any useful purpose.