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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Include files relative to the current s


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Include files relative to the current source file
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:04:59 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Peter Bex scripsit:

> IMHO, include should do one or the other: relatively to file or the
> current dir, but not both.

C's #include "foo", at least as implemented by gcc, uses the "directory
containing the current file" rule, and I think it makes the most sense.
However, for backward compatibility it would make sense to me to look in
$PWD next before looking in the standard include path.

> An include-relative is defined by the s48-modules egg.  I think it
> makes more sense to have that, especially considering we also have
> load-relative.

Good point.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        address@hidden
Tautology is something that is tautological.  --Francois-Rene Rideau



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