[racket-dev] A basic package system

It's probably just me, but this readme is a bit too dense. 
[I know the first bit. That's why I pushed the two-step. 
I know a bit more from Eli. But that's an accident.]


On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:

> Eli and I had a very useful conversation last night and we realized
> that a lot of the ideal package system we are imagining is within our
> reach very quickly. Today I made a demonstration of our ideas:
> 
> https://github.com/jeapostrophe/exp/tree/master/pkgs
> 
> There's a README there. Once you read it,
> 
> Run use/program.rkt
> 
> Then edit use/pkg-in.rkt and change the "safe" to "unsafe"
> 
> You'll see that it changes the meaning of racket/listy module
> reference in use/program.rkt
> 
> I haven't implemented the module algebra, but it should be clear from
> looking at the macro implementations that the existing identifier
> algebra in require/provide will work transparently.
> 
> Jay
> 
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