Re: defining `app' breaks modules

[Christopher Cramer]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:50:47AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> In guile 1.6.3 on a recent i386 debian, I was foolish enough to make a
> define of "app", promptly breaking use-modules.
[example deleted]
> It'd be nice if the module system implementation could protect itself
> against such stray defines.  I guess there's a lot of things in
> boot-9.scm that could be upset, but "app" seems a particularly
> unfortunate one, since it's short and rather natural for some sort of
> application thing.

Yeah, I remember looking at this in boot-9 and thinking it was odd.
It wouldn't be too hard to fix -- outside of boot-9 and possibly modules.c
I don't think anything really touches it. (I know I've written code that
touches it, but I also know I wasn't really supposed to...) Just rename
it to %application or #{\ application}# or something.

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