[plt-scheme] Redefining function from scheme/base

From: Jos Koot (jos.koot at telefonica.net)
Date: Thu Jun 12 09:28:35 EDT 2008

You are probably using an outdated subversion. 

#lang scheme
(define add1 sub1)
(add1 3)

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Jos

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Engelberg" <mark.engelberg at gmail.com>
To: "pltscheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:13 AM
Subject: [plt-scheme] Redefining function from scheme/base


> I'd like to redefine real->decimal-string in a module, and provide the
> redefinition to other modules, but I'm not sure how to do this.
> 
> I'm using the module language, with #lang scheme at the top, and I get
> the "module: identifier is already imported in: real->decimal-string"
> error when I try to redefine.
> 
> It looks liike real->decimal-string comes from the scheme/base module,
> but I'm not explicitly requiring it... it's just automatically
> included as part of the scheme language.  So how do I redefine this,
> and once I succeed at doing this, how do the consumer modules choose
> my redefinition over the base version?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
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