Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix record type tags to be nonglobal by module-prefixing them

[John Cowan]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Evan Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:

I really think we should hide the hash prefixing as much as possible.
It's an implementation detail and not something users should interact
with directly. The right way to distinguish these things is through the
module language.

Per contra, I find it a great help with debugging module problems.   When I

am not sure if something is correctly imported, it is useful to be able to type bar into the REPL and see if that means  #<procedure (foo#bar x1 x2)> or #<procedure (baz#bar x1 x2)>.

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