On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: > At Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:35:28 -0500, Robby Findler wrote: >> Just to be sure I understand, you're saying that these two may or may >> not refer to the same file: >> >> >> (require foo/blah) >> >> (require "blah.rkt") >> >> right? > > Right --- depending on whether the enclosing file is required through a > `lib' path or through a `file' path, and when "blah.rkt" is shadowed in > an alternative collects directory. > > That much is true already if you shadow the "foo" collection through a > different "collects". Currently, I think the "blah.rkt" form will > always refers to a file in the same directory as the enclosing module, > but I'm not certain.
That seems like it matches the principle of least surprise: quote marks mean relative directories and things like (require foo/blah) mean "go find it in the collection tree". So the difference is syntactically apparent. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
