Re: [Scheme-reports] Formal Comment: clarify library loading rules

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Richard Kelsey scripsit:

> Summary: Library loading rules are unclear and overly permissive

Formal Comment ticket #430 filed.

>   "Within a program, each imported library is loaded at least once,
>    and, if imported by more than one program or library, may possibly
>    be loaded additional times.

Changed on trunk.

>    Regardless of the number of times that
>    a library is loaded, each program or library that imports bindings
>    from a library will receive bindings from a single loading of
>    that library, regardless of the number of the number of import or
>    cond-expand forms in which it appears."

This is a substantive change, so ballot ticket #441 filed.

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beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from
inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding
and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic
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