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

[Eli Barzilay <eli@x>]

On Monday, John Cowan wrote:
> 
> 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.

Include files in GCC are used for things like system-wide
configuration, where a user-defined search path makes sense.
`include' is used for plain code, so the C analogy is closer to an
`#include "foo.h"'.  But even that is not close enough to `include' to
draw any conclusions: in the majority of use cases you'd want to
include a specific file just once whereas in C the majority of uses is
including files many times.

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