Re: Weird module behaviour

[Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>]

Panicz Maciej Godek <godek.maciek@gmail.com> skribis:
> I'm trying to use Aleix Conchillo's guile-redis module for my project,
> and it revealed a surprising use-case.
> Namely, guile-redis consists of several modules that are put together
> in one meta-module, which looks more or less like this:
> 
> (define-module (redis)
>   #:use-module (redis main)
>   #:use-module (redis commands connection)
>   #:use-module (redis commands hashes)
>   #:use-module (redis commands keys)
>   ...)
> 
> (define-syntax re-export-modules
>   (syntax-rules ()
>     ((_ (mod ...) ...)
>      (begin
>        (module-use! (module-public-interface (current-module))
>          (resolve-interface '(mod ...)))
>         ...))))
> 
> (re-export-modules
>   (redis main)
>   (redis commands connection)
>   (redis commands hashes)
>   (redis commands keys)
>   ...)
> 
> So basically the meta-module adds the interfaces of its child modules.
> This isn't particularly surprising, because another way of creating a
> meta-module would be to enumerat all bindings from its child modules,
> which is a lot of work that would create an opportunity for
> desynchronization.

As a side note, FYI I have some stuff called ‘generate-reexporter’ to
help deal with the desync problem, at

   https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/sortsmill-core-guile

I almost always use R⁶RS-style modules but there is some support for
Guilish notation in the stuff that is being re-exported.