From: Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08 Mar 2002 23:53:35 +0000
I'd say it's a bug, and that it would be better to squash it now than to support strange expectations through 1.6.x. it's also a bug in the sense that side-effects on load (except for `define') are usually considered antithetical to clean modular design, especially since the module system does not (and might never) support "instantiable modules". this would be a good check to add to the linter. on the other hand, loading modules serves to extend the basic system in other ways (e.g., syntax), so it might seem natural in a similar fashion to piggyback turning on the debugging evaluator when loading (ice-9 debug). in the long run, the stability of a bad design rarely outweighs the temporary instability that changing it to a good design entails, in terms of both user and maintainer satisfaction. (however, there are always exceptions; see Unix. ;-) thi _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile
