Deferred (aka lazy) loading of static functions.

dart/tests/compiler/dart2js_extra/deferred/deferred_function_test.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Test that loading of a library (with top-level functions only) can
+// be deferred.
+
+import 'dart:async';
+
+@DeferLoad('deferred_function_library')

[kasperl, 2013/02/05 08:30:53]

If we had support for it, would it make sense to make this @DeferLoad annotation
optional (multitest style)? I guess it is part of the design that the code
should work just fine if you ignore the annotation, right?

[ahe, 2013/02/05 13:54:22]

Not sure about the "didLoad" parameter below. I think this particular test would
fail if the library isn't lazily loaded.

+import 'deferred_function_library.dart';
+
+isNoSuchMethodError(e) => e is NoSuchMethodError;
+
+main() {
+  print('unittest-suite-wait-for-done');
+
+  Expect.throws(() { foo('a'); }, isNoSuchMethodError);
+  int counter = 0;
+  load('deferred_function_library').then((bool didLoad) {
+    Expect.isTrue(didLoad);
+    Expect.equals(1, ++counter);
+    print('lazy was loaded');
+    Expect.equals(42, foo('b'));
+  });
+  Expect.equals(0, counter);
+  load('deferred_function_library').then((bool didLoad) {
+    Expect.isFalse(didLoad);
+    Expect.equals(2, ++counter);
+    print('lazy was loaded');
+    Expect.equals(42, foo('b'));
+    print('unittest-suite-success');
+  });
+  Expect.equals(0, counter);
+  Expect.throws(() { foo('a'); }, isNoSuchMethodError);
+}