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Re: [Chicken-hackers] units used by default


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] units used by default
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:51:38 -0400
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felix winkelmann scripsit:

> The "if necessary" is intended to mean: "if not already imported" (in fact,
> I believe that I possibly meant "loaded", which is incorrect in this context).
> I will rephrase that passage in the manual. "use" (which is 
> "require-extension")
> always does an import. Any sort of automatism in the act of importing appears
> to be dangerous and confusing.

Ah.  In that case, I refine the bug report thus:  (use library) and (use eval)
throw an error instead of silently succeeding.

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