Re: define and modules

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Dirk Herrmann wrote:

> On 4 Nov 2002, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 
> > Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > OK, talking about the right thing:  How should guile react to the
> > > following code:
> > > 
> > > (define define-private define)
> > > 
> > > This is done in boot9.scm.  Should this be allowed?
> > 
> > No, since 'define' is a syntactic keyword... which is probably not the
> > reason you were expecting, right?
> 
> It is exactly the reason.  The question is, how should guile react here?

And, another question, how should the code in boot9.scm be changed?  I
don't know why the definition was done at all, but I am not really sure if
there is some module-system trick behind it.

Best regards,
Dirk