Re: [Chicken-users] Reimporting modules

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:16:22PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> We have a problem with modules that get replaced:
> 
> #;4> (module foo (foo) (import scheme) (define foo 64))
> #;5> (import foo)
> #;6> foo
> 32                      ; This is bad.
> #;7> (module bar () (import scheme) (import foo) foo)
> 32                      ; This is very, very bad.
> #;8>
> 
> To solve the problem at 6, I think we need a "reimport" syntactic form,
> which will import modules that have already been imported.

It makes more sense to have "import" simply re-import the module if it's
already known.  This allows one to simply re(LOAD) a file with module
imports while at the REPL, just like loading a file containing (DEFINE)s
causes old definitions to be redefined.

Cheers,
Peter
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