[racket-dev] Determining if a resolved module path is a real module name

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Fri May 16 10:40:44 EDT 2014

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> The result of `expand` does not keep track of it source. You may want
> to use `resolve-module-path-index` from `syntax/modresolve`, providing
> the original module path as the second argument. The
> `resolve-module-path-index` function detects the "self" module path
> index (which is giving you '|expanded module|) and uses the second
> argument in its place.

Ok, thanks.

I'd actually prefer to know that a particular identifier is a
reference to "the current module", so if '|expanded module| is only
(and always) produced for this case, that's plenty for me.

Sam

>
> At Fri, 16 May 2014 09:58:12 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> Sometimes, `resolved-module-path-name` produces the symbol '|expanded
>> module|. Is this the only symbol that's produced that _isn't_ the
>> actual name of a module?
>>
>> Also, given that I'm calling `expand` on a module form, is it possible
>> to do something so that I _don't_ end up with '|expanded module| as
>> the name?
>>
>> Sam
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