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Re: why is use-modules a macro?
- To: "C. Ray C." <crayc at tomcramer dot org>
- Subject: Re: why is use-modules a macro?
- From: Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
- Date: 14 Mar 2000 20:53:08 +0100
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000314124039.A26812@206.31.63.15>
"C. Ray C." <crayc@tomcramer.org> writes:
> Why not just define the procedure as use-modules in the first place?
It simply doesn't (and shouldn't!) evaluate its arguments. The
module language is only syntactic shugar for some more low level
mechanisms which are not accessible to module users.
Jost