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Re: Is this a bug?
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Ian Price |
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Re: Is this a bug? |
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Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:24:58 +0100 |
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Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
> `load' is optional in the R5RS, and it has been removed entirely from
> the R6RS, which was designed with compilers in mind. Guile allows the
> use of `load', but its compiler assumes that undeclared identifiers are
> top-level _variables_, not syntax. This seems a reasonable compromise.
While I more than agree with the compromise, perhaps a note could be
added to the documentation given 'load' has a different behaviour at the
REPL and in modules. In a module, we expect the above; at the REPL, we
want the syntax-definitions available. Perhaps something like
"Since 'load' happens at run-time, syntax definitions will have no
effect on existing procedures, although they will be available at the
REPL."
--
Ian Price
"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"