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> I suppose the first thing needed to make that work, and maybe the only
> thing needed to make that work, is agreement on the name of a search path
> environment variable that enable can use to find loadable builtins.

Why not just use an environment variable such as LOADABLES_PATH (just
like the way how PATH is used)? Is it too difficult to reach an
agreement on this? As of 4.4.23, I still don't see such an environment
variable. Anyway, any variable is better than no variable.

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Regards,
Peng