[plt-scheme] PLaneT require form

From: Carl Eastlund (cce at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 8 17:04:40 EDT 2008

The current implementation appears to treat symbols and strings
identically; either the docs or the code are wrong.  The code just
applies symbol->string if necessary and moves along, there's no
separate code for handling extensions.

--Carl

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa <jpc-ml at zenburn.net> wrote:
> The manual seems to say that this should be equivalent:
> (require (planet "soegaard/bit-io/bit-io.scm"))
> (require (planet "bit-io.scm" ("soegaard" "bit-io.plt" 2 0)))
>
> Unfortunately the first one throws this:
> open-input-file: cannot open input file: "/Users/jpc/Library/PLT
> Scheme/planet/300/4.1.1/cache/soegaard/bit-io.plt/2/0/bit-io.scm.ss" (No
> such file or directory; errno=2)
>
> The manual says that it should use .scm as the extension when I use the
> string (and not the symbol) form.
>
> Is this a bug or am I missing something?
>
> --
> regards,
> Jakub Piotr Cłapa

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