Ray Dillinger scripsit:

> Hm. The distinction I had been drawing between the desired 
> functionality of "load" vs. "import" is that "import" is aware 
> of and can be used for names defined as libraries/modules 
> (whose implementation may be binary or FASL or whatever) 

So that's just (load (module-search name)).

> whereas "load" is aware of and can be used for filenames 
> (implicitly files of scheme source code) only. 

R5RS explicitly allows loaded files not to be in Scheme.

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