Re: [Scheme-reports] "include" filename resolution

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Denis Washington scripsit:

> I was wondering how implementations are thought to resolve file names in 
> module "include" forms: relative to the including source file or the 
> current working directory? Only the former would be really useful IMO, 
> but there is no mention of this concern in the draft. I know that file 
> name resolution is actually out of scope for the report, but a sentence 
> hinting to what is intended might be nice.

If I were an implementer, I'd do what gcc does: look in the directory
of the including file, then in a list of user-specified places, then
in a list of implementation-specified places.

> (If every implementation 
> interprets this differently, "include" becomes useless.)

I don't really understand this claim.

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