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Re: r6rs libraries
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: r6rs libraries |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:16:23 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Wed 18 Feb 2009 09:53, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Wait, you've lost me -- the recursive name space? I thought Guile
>> requires that the "tail car" of the module name map to an actual
>> filename on disk when searching for modules.
>
> Look for `nested-ref' in `boot-9.scm'. That's why standard binding
> names can't be used in module names (e.g., a module can't be named
> `(foo bar eval)').
We should really fix this -- there's no reason that modules and
variables share the same obarray. This nastiness has bit me a number
of times. (Of course, a module could be in a variable obarray -- but it
shouldn't be by default.)
Andy
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