Re: re-using a module

[Viktor Pavlenko]

> From: David Pirotte <address@hidden>
> Date: 2004/03/30 Tue AM 11:13:11 EST
> 
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:50:45 -0500
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) wrote:
> 
> > Viktor Pavlenko <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > is there a way to reload a module in guile?
> > 
> > Untested black magic:
> > (use-modules (aaa))
> > (local-remove '(app modules aaa))
> > (use-modules (aaa))
> 

Thanks, that's great. OTOH why isn't it done by default? Shouldn't
guile do a cleanup if it fails to load a module? Besides I'm not too
inclined to use "black magic" in my code...

> once a module has been used, unless you define new
> symbols/functions/methods ... you can simply load the file
> 
>       (load "xxx.scm")
> 

This (although painful) works great too. Incidentally, I looked for
a C equivalent, and found only scm_primitive_load. Scheme primitive-load
differs from load in that it disregards the module's export list 
(makes all module's symbols visible :-(

Thanks for your help.

Viktor