Re: [Chicken-users] The point of 'provide'

[John Cowan]

Scripsi:

> There's a bug here, as shown by the traceback:
> 
> (##core#begin (##sys#require (quote foo)) (import foo))
> 
> This is an attempt to require *and then* import, but it cannot work,
> because import is a macro and does its work at macroexpansion time,
> whereas ##sys#require is a procedure and does its work at runtime.

Specifically, ##core#require-extension should be calling ##sys#import
(which *is* a procedure) rather than plain import.  Unfortunately,
I cannot find the definition of ##core#require-extension.

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