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Re: why is use-modules a macro?
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:53:08PM +0100, Jost Boekemeier wrote:
> "C. Ray C." <crayc@tomcramer.org> writes:
>
> > Why not just define the procedure as use-modules in the first place?
>
> It simply doesn't (and shouldn't!) evaluate its arguments. The
> module language is only syntactic shugar for some more low level
> mechanisms which are not accessible to module users.
Oh, duh <slaps forehead>. I didn't notice the extra ' there.