Re: [gambit-list] Identifier renaming on load?

On 2013-09-27, at 3:48 PM, Mikael mikael.rcv@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Marc,

When (load):ing a binary file ("myfile.o1" etc.) , would there be any way to do identifier renaming at load time?

E.g.,

echo "(define x 5)" >> myfile.scm

gsc

(compile-file "myfile.scm")

(set! ##load-symbol-import (lambda (loaded-symbol-name) 'y))

(load "myfile.o1")

y ; => 5

I believe this could be very useful for a module system - not sure though would be happy to understand if there's any problem about it. Without or with modification to Gambit's source.

Best regards, Mikael

Are you thinking about this in order to load a module multiple times with different renamings? That will not work because the C names will clash.

Why don't you do the renaming at compile time?

Marc