Re: sc-compile and the environment

Dan <[email protected]> writes:

>> So, in answer to your question: *nothing* from the
>> environment gets
>> serialised. If the source file you are compiling
>> contains a call to
>> require-library/extension then the code to make that
>> call, not the
>> result of it, will get serialised.
>
> Wait, so you're implying that it's not necessary to
> req-lib/ext all of a files' prerequisites before
> compiling it?

Correct.

> A little strange fact: when I compile
>
> (module mod ()
>   (display "Hello\n"))
>
> the string is not displayed. The greeting happens only
> when I req-ext the compiled file. Why? I thought
> compile-file executed the code.

When I stick the above in a file and run compile-file over it then
"Hello" *does* get displayed.


Matthias

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