Re: Recent guile-user related reversion in boot-9.scm

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Thinking about this issue, I would say that `top-repl' might be moved
> > into the (ice-9 script) module as well, and scm_shell would load that
> > module and pass control to `guile-main' (right?).
> 
> It's the other way around -- scm_shell calls guile-main, guile-main
> parses the args, builds a set of forms to perform the actions
> specified on the command line, and then calls eval on the set of
> forms.

Yes, that's what I meant.

> So presuming we want the envt during argument execution (-c, -x, -l,
> etc.) to be the normally populated guile-user module,

I think it boils down to what we want "normally populated guile-user
module" to mean.  Should it normally use `(ice-9 threads)', or
shouldn't it?  The current answer is that for the repl, it should use
it since that is convenient, but for a script, it shouldn't since it
improves startup time not to use it and scripts should specify all the
modules they need anyway.