[racket] `provide` failed under `#lang racket/load`

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Yi,
>
> Most #lang languages implicitly create a module from the contents of the
> file.  #lang racket/load, on the other hand, runs the contents of the file
> as top-level terms outside of any module.  The provide form is not legal at
> the top level, as it is meaningless -- there's no module to provide things
> from.  You need to either switch back to #lang racket or remove the
> provide, depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
>

Thanks for the answer, Karl.  I also found the answer in the doc:
http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/load-lang.html.  But very
confusingly, the doc keeps saying "racket/load" module.


>
> Carl Eastlund
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Yi Dai <plmday at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have the following code in a file named `foo.rkt`:
>>
>> ```
>> #lang racket/load
>>
>> (provide foo)
>>
>> (define foo 'bar)
>> ```
>>
>> When trying to run the code, I got the following confusing error:
>>
>> > `provide`: not at module level in: `(provide foo)`
>>
>> What does this mean?  Why `provide` is not at module level?
>> Use `#lang racket` instead does not pose this problem.  I am
>> confused.  Any idea?
>>
>>
>> Yours truly,
>>
>> Yi
>>
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