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Re: [Chicken-users] The point of 'provide'
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] The point of 'provide' |
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Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:59:21 +0100 |
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On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:13:05PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Bex scripsit:
>
> > My goal here is to load a file regardless of whether it was loaded by
> > some bootstrap code or installed as an extension.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this programmatically?
>
> Require does the job as far as mere loading is concerned, but as for
> programmatic importing, you must use the undocumented ##sys#import
> procedure.
That's interesting, but what I really meant was: "is there a way to add
directories to where USE looks for extensions?"
Cheers,
Peter
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