[r6rs-discuss] Import choices: flexibility vs. discoverability

[John Cowan]

Brian Harvey scripsit:

> I vote no on having three things (LOAD, IMPORT, INCLUDE) all of which
> have almost the same meaning, when one will do.

Since you believe in first-class environments, you would say that.
For the rest of us:

LOAD happens at run time and accepts a computed file name.

INCLUDE happens at expand time and accepts a literal file name.

IMPORT happens at expand time and accepts a module name (which may imply
        a file name).

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