[gambit-list] why does load/include work differently for this

lowly coder lowlycoder at huoyanjinjing.com
Sat Aug 15 03:51:09 EDT 2009


They're loading/including the same function. Then I execute them, and
I get different results. Isn't that kind of weird? If you loaded or
included a function for +, wouldn't you expect it to give you the same
results?

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Adrien
Piérard<pierarda at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> note that lookup-var is just a function ... i'm surprised that
>> load/include gives me different results
>
> Why are you surprised?
> If two functions exist, then they do two different things.
>
> The fact is that LOAD is a function (eval'd at runtime, as one
> explained you), and that INCLUDE is not.
> Include is a reader-macro. When the parser sees an INCLUDE, it parses
> the source code of the other file, and then inserts it instead of that
> form.
>
> No magic here.
>
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