Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic chicken and load/link/import forms

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:05:31AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
> So, here my suggestions (still unclear - there are so many situations to
> take care of):
> 
> [syntax] (require-library ID ...)
>   Load compiled or source file from extension-library dir, include
> path or current
>   directory. In the compiler, replace with a "uses" declaration, when
> any of the static
>   command line options are given.
> 
> [syntax] (require-extension ID ...)
>   As above, but does an implicit "import".
> 
> [procedure] (load FILENAME)
> [procedure] (require 'ID)
>   As usual. "require" is a procedure and required for implementing
> "require-..." anyway.

What makes "require" different from "require-library"?

Cheers,
Peter
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