[plt-scheme] include and sub-directories

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 19 19:20:13 EST 2009

I believe what Jay writes is true for require and that the same code
is used for require and include, but it somehow seems less important
for include. Maybe the right thing is a special argument to include to
say "don't down on my groove d00d".

Robby

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Dave Herman <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I submitted a bug but I leave it to y'all -- I'm fine working around it by
> replacing '.' with '_' in my pathname.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> Jay McCarthy wrote:
>>
>> My impression is that this is to ensure source compatibility on the
>> many platforms we support. I am willing to bet that there is a version
>> of Windows or Mac OS 9 that these rules are specifically designed to
>> be safe wrt.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is probably reasonably considered a bug. :)
>>>
>>> On Thursday, November 19, 2009, Dave Herman <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So what you have run into is an annoying and obscure feature, but a
>>>> documented and apparently intentional one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the error message could be more suggestive, and those docs are
>>>> pretty impenetrable. But I'm glad it's cleared up. Thanks for the help!
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
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