[plt-dev] crash and burn

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 18 17:40:37 EST 2009

At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:32:04 -0500, Dave Herman wrote:
> What is the intended behavior?
>
> [...]
>
> 3. The removal is illegal and raises an error; you can't remove 
> variables from module namespace.

That's it. Specifically, the definition is constant, so changing or
removing the definition is illegal.

The JIT takes advantage of constantness, so that's why removing the
definition triggered a crash.



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