[bug #30116] (guile) introduces a cycle in the submodules subtree

[bug #30116] (guile) introduces a cycle in the submodules subtree

[Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz]

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                 Summary: (guile) introduces a cycle in the submodules
subtree
                 Project: Guile
            Submitted by: jao
            Submitted on: Fri 11 Jun 2010 03:31:13 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Define the auxiliary procedure:

   (define (submodules m) 
     (hash-map->list list (module-submodules m)))

which just extracts a list of submodules of `m'. Now apply it to the '(guile)
module:

   (define gm (resolve-module '(guile) #f))

   (submodules m)

this evaluates to a duplicate submodule with different names:

   ((%app #<module (%app) 84e7c60>) (app #<module (%app) 84e7c60>))

Asking for the submodules of either one of those gives:

   (define (submodules* m) (cdr (submodules m)))
   (submodules* (car (submodules* m)) => (#<module () 84e7ea0>)

and getting the submodules of this last one, one obtains the list of top
level modules, which again includes `gm'. That means that the module tree
isn't actually a tree, but a DAG, which sounds weird to me (and will most
probably provoke infinite loops in module folders).

Also, the duplicated submodule of '(guile) seems an implementation detail
accidentally leaked (hiding it would break the cycle).

   
   
   




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[bug #30116] (guile) introduces a cycle in the submodules subtree

[Andy Wingo]

Update of bug #30116 (project guile):

                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               

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Follow-up Comment #1:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/10297/focus=10300

`app' and `%app' are there for back compatibility. They are two names for the
same module which does indeed introduce a circle, which has been the case for
some 10 or 15 years now :-)

I think you have to deal with this, unfortunately. When these deprecated
shims are removed, things will be different.

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[bug #30116] (guile) introduces a cycle in the submodules subtree

[Andy Wingo]

Update of bug #30116 (project guile):

             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 


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