Re: A module system should resolve, not introduce, name conflicts

[Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>]

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> Again: The meta-language is not some global thing but associated with
> the repl.  This means that there is one syntax for the Scheme repl,
> and other for other repls.

This contradicts with what you've said earlier:

> It seems quite obvious that what you want to import is the bindings
> which the code in your module uses, and nothing else.  It also seems
> obvious that you would like the metalanguage to stay constant while
> walking around among modules.

And I agree.  How should the tcl equivalent of `,config' look like?
How should the perl equivalent of `,in' look like?

No, I think it is better to use only one command: control-d which
terminates the current repl and gets you back to the well known config
module.


Jost