Re: Trouble with `export'.

[Rob Browning]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> * The need to check for conflicts at lookup time is more time
> consuming than to do this check at definition time.  While I can not
> really prove this statement, I base it on the assumption that you
> typically read a definition more often than you write it.  But, this
> is a performance issue which does not matter too much.

And don't forget to consider what implications decisions we make here
may have wrt compiling guile code.  If there are cases where you can
push the overhead of "checking" to compile time rather than run time,
then you'll avoid that expense when executing the code.

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930