Hello,
> Is there a standard way to write code so that one can later identify if it was
> loaded or not (e.g. like declaring a package name)?
>
In some packages, we write something as
put('mypackage, 1, 'version) $
Later, when we want to know if 'mypackage was loaded, we call funtion
'get. For example, if we don't want to re-load a package which was
already loaded:
if not get('mypackage,'version) then load("mypackage") $
--
Mario