[racket-dev] A basic package system

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Wed Jul 27 11:32:45 EDT 2011

10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> They have more similarities than your message suggests I believe.
> And it is probably worth exploring that.  As far as I can see a
> facet/modulet has less stuff than a package and possibly a different
> story vis a vis files in the filesystem.

They're really unrelated -- the new thing with
facets/modulets/whatever name they get is a kind of a separately
loadable sub-module.  What we were talking about is basically making
the `foo' in (require foo) be an identifier that you could define to
actually point to some random file.

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