Automatic module resolution

[Nicolai Parlog]

 Hi!

In a year-old comment on StackOverflow[1] Mark Reinhold wrote:

> If one automatic module depends upon another automatic module
> (i.e., both are on the module path but only the first is required
> by an explicit module) then you can cause the second automatic
> module to be loaded via the `--add-modules` option.

Experiments show that is became unnecessary and once one automatic
module gets loaded, so do all others. I couldn't find any references to
this in a cursory search of the SotMS and this mailing list - can aynone
link to a discussion on this?

 so long ... Nicolai


[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/q/38269630/2525313?noredirect=1#comment64036158_38274483



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