Re: Help with %?RESOURCES variable

I mean, yes... the program runs at runtime. Anything available to the 
program is "available during runtime". Yes, you can look up the content 
at runtime - e.g from the place where it's installed. It is NOT advised 
to try and change the content that you can look up with %?RESOURCES - 
you aren't even supposed to know where it is; but as static data, you 
can always access it during runtime.

Regardless, what Brad Gilbert says seems to be consistent with what I 
can recall from a couple of months ago: it is only set in *modules* of a 
distribution. It can be set even if the module isn't precompiled but 
either way - it's not set in a mere raku script, even if it is located 
under the root folder of a distribution.

On 2023. 04. 19. 21:54, yary wrote:
> https://docs.raku.org/language/variables says
>
>     |%?RESOURCES|is a compile-time variable available to the code of
>     aDistribution <https://docs.raku.org/type/Distribution.html>.
>
>     It contains a hash that provides compile and runtime access to
>     files associated with the Distribution of the current compilation
>     unit.
>
>
>  The intent of that reads as - the value is set during compilation, 
> and is available during runtime. Seems like either the doc is wrong, 
> or the implementation is incomplete. I'm hoping that the doc is right, 
> because it's useful to be able to read %?RESOURCES during runtime, and 
> in general useful to set a variable once during compile, then read it 
> forever at runtime.
>
> -y
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:00 PM Brad Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Unless things have changed since I was last active, only modules
>     are precompiled. `?` Twigilled variables are set at compile time.
>     So if it had any values, they wouldn't be useful, because they
>     would be created anew every time.
>
>     On Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 11:48 AM David Santiago <[email protected]>
>     wrote:
>
>
>         Hi Polgár
>
>         A seg, 17-04-2023 às 18:08 +0200, Polgár Márton escreveu:
>         > I think this is the classic case of ?-twigilled, "compile-time"
>         > variables only being available in modules. It kind of forces
>         you to
>         > always have the pattern of: heavy-lifting in a module inside
>         lib, and
>         > the script just uses the module.
>         >
>
>
>
>         yes, that was the case. It works inside a module. I guess i
>         have to
>         think differently on how to organize the code.
>
>         Thanks and best regards,
>         David Santiago
>