Contexts and DumSave
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg54823] Contexts and DumSave
- From: Geronimo <kalymereauNOSP at Myahoo.fr>
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:29:11 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universite de la Mediterranee Aix-Marseille 2
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi I have a package mypack.m in which I compute a time-consuming expression: BeginPackage["mypack`"] expr::usage="stuff" Begin["`Private`"] expr = (complicated) End[] EndPackage[] So I am considering to save the expression with a DumpSave["mypack.mx",expr] inside the package. Thus the full name of the expression is mypack`expr Then in a notebook I want to load the expression << "mypack`" If the mypack.mx file does not exists, then mypack.m is called and the expression is computed and exported. $ContextPath is updated with mypack` However if mypack.mx does exist, then mypack.m is not called (OK), the expression is loaded from the .mx file and I can quickly have it with mypack`expr. But in this case $ContextPath is not changed, so the short name expr is not recognized. In other words, expr only exists within context mypack`, but the << instruction does not load the appropriate context when the .m file is not called. Thus my question is: when the .mx file is created within a package, how can I get the expressions inside without typing their full name ? I could hack $ContextPath but I guess this is not the correct way to do. I don't want to compute and DumpSave the expression within the global` context, which is an obvious solution to my problem. Many thanks. Geronimo