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

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Oct 14 15:33:22 EDT 2009


Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:

> Ah, cond-expand knows if a module *exists*, does it? Your earlier
> wording said *is imported* or some such, which is the source of my
> concern :-)

That was hastily said: it should probably have been "if a module
is loaded" (and therefore accessible for import).  Load-on-import of
course complicates the issue, so maybe it should really be "if a module
is loadable".

Anyhow, cond-expand's feature list is independent of current bindings.

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