Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
> You didn't ask if it was a good idea or not, just why someone might
> want to do that. :-)
:-) "Because they're crazy" is, of course, always a correct answer...
> But I was thinking that anyone who did this would have a main file to
> load which would load the remaining files with ibase set
> appropriately. And if foo contained ibase:16, would the rest of the
> file be read with ibase set to 16? That's reasonable, provided that
> ibase is returned to the original value after the file is loaded.
I guess that including a local binding for ibase in the implementation
of load() would have that effect, and I think that is what most people
would expect.
Rupert
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