Re: sisc-1.10.0-alpha bug report

Thomas Fischbacher wrote:

>>>I think, it would be a good thing to make this script idempotent.
>>
>>Quite a few things loaded during the heap build can only be loaded 
>>during that phase. Making them all idempotent would be tedious and in 
>>some cases hard.
> 
> 
> Hm, how about a very simple solution along the following lines:
> 
> === bla.scm ===
> (if (not (member 'bla *features*))
>     (begin
>       (define *features* (cons 'bla *features*))
>       (display "BLA!\n")
>       (define (bla x)
> 	(cons x x))
>       ))
> ===============

Scheme files are not generally self-contained, let alone is their 
loading idempotent. So one generally cannot simply load any odd .scm 
file one comes across. I don't think that is a problem and hence I don't 
think it needs fixing.


Matthias.



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