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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: define and modules
Date: 03 Nov 2002 17:25:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smyiboyo.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10210191722080.10707-100000@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>

Dirk Herrmann <dirk@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:

> Great.  However, currently, guile's handling of defines is buggy or at
> least in contrast to R5RS.  Changing it would break existing code as shown
> in the following two examples:

I see.  I'd say we don't need to slavishly follow R5RS here since R5RS
does not talk about modules. And we don't need to keep our current,
mostly accidental semantics either.  So there is opportunity to do the
Right Thing...

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-03 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-20 16:17 define and modules Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-03 16:25 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-11-04 21:32   ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-04 22:12     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-11-06  6:54       ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-06  7:16         ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-11-06 17:20           ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-06 17:51             ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-11-06 22:27         ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-11-17 20:30         ` Marius Vollmer

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