On May 16, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Tue, 15 May 2012 10:49:20 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> ISSUE 1: I am disturbed that submodule b is evaluated before submodule a. > > I've long resisted defining the order in which `require'd modules are > instantiated, but let's try it. I'll push a change so that > instantiation of a module instantiates its `require'd modules in the > order in which they are `require'd. > > (Surprising to me, the only thing that I saw break with this change was > a test in the module test suite.) > > Keep in mind that relying on the instantiation order is still generally > a bad idea. Also, `require'd modules are still instantiated before the > module body expressions are evaluated (and I don't think we should try > to change that), so running > > #lang racket > > (module one racket/base 1) > (module three racket/base 3) > > (require 'one) > 2 > (require 'three) > > prints 1, 3, 2, not 1, 2, 3.
I can live with that, very much so. Thanks -- Matthias ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
