Re: set-current-module in .guile ?

[Jon Wilson <jsw@wilsonjc.us>]

Hi Scott,
Can you for some reason not use use-modules?
Regards,
Jon

Scott N. Walck wrote:
> Dear Guilers,
> 
> Dan Gildea has ported a large fraction of Gerry Sussman's scmutils
> code from MIT-scheme to guile.  In doing so, he uses guile modules
> instead of MIT-scheme environments.  Much of the code creates a module
> called "generic-environment".  In an interactive guile session, you
> type
> 
> (set-current-module generic-environment)
> 
> and this redefines "+", for example, to add functions and vectors.
> 
> I would like to know if there is a way to set the interactive
> environment to "generic-environment" in a .guile file.  If I put
> 
> (set-current-module generic-environment)
> 
> in a .guile file, it does nothing.  (I suppose because the current
> module when reading the .guile file is different from the current
> module in an interactive guile session?)
> 
> I would like to use this guile-scmutils with physics students, and I
> would like to hide from them the need to execute
> 
> (set-current-module generic-environment)
> 
> in an interactive session.  Of course, I could pre-load
> 
> (define start
>   (lambda ()
>     (set-current-module generic-environment)))
> 
> in a .guile file or with the -l option, and then students would only
> need to type
> 
> (start)
> 
> but it's still awkward, and it's a detail that I don't want to have to
> explain to them.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions that folks might have.
> 
> Scott
>