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<sneek>Zarutian_iPad: wb!!

<mossfet>Heya, total Guile newbie trying to get started with The Heart of Spritely and follow along with the Wisp examples

<mossfet>I'm not really sure how to do dependency management. How do I actually make the spawn-vat, etc, functions available in the Wisp REPL?

<juliana[m]>use-modules : goblins

<juliana[m]>at the REPL

<mossfet>oh sick

<juliana[m]>did that get you what you needed?

<mossfet>yeah i think so

<juliana[m]>yay!

<mossfet>with the taste-of-goblins.w file it has me create, how should i load that?

<mossfet>hi vv

<juliana[m]>great question my computer crashed so i can't test that rn but i think it's guile -L ./ --language=wisp then at ths repl you can use-modules : taste-of-goblins (assuming that's the module name which i don't remember for sure)

<vvvvmvr[m]>howdy there

<juliana[m]>Conventionally a given Guile file's name is the last token in the use-module... term? (Making up language here) so if you have a module that's imported like use-module : some cool module it would be on disk at /path/to/some/cool/module.scm

<juliana[m]>And then you'd declare that like define-module : some cool module (to stick with wisp anyway)

<juliana[m]>^ that would go at the top of the file

<juliana[m]>(more or less)

<juliana[m]>(there are things like shebang lines and load forms that don't matter very often)

<mossfet>it's failing at compiling with the command you provided, juliana.

<mossfet>i'm getting unknown location: source expression failed to match any pattern in form define-module

<juliana[m]>Okay lemme look at this properly lol

<juliana[m]>firstly the argument i was think of was -l taste-of-goblins.w but given the error you got you figured that out

<juliana[m]>ah, okay, so because this is wisp the actual syntax used for the define-module form in the whitepaper is incorrect

<juliana[m]>ike a

<mossfet>oh i see

<mossfet>(also i used -L, using -l gives a different error. is that what you meant)

<mossfet>(also i used -L, using -l gives a different error. is that what you meant?)

<mossfet>oop, no correction it seems in irc

<juliana[m]>it expands to... (full message at <https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/v3/download/libera.chat/0482490f09bf49ed3cad119b3944eeb8ead1ec2e>)

<juliana[m]>yes, i did mean what you said :3

<juliana[m]>use-module* in that second code block

<mossfet>i see

<mossfet>how should i correct?

<juliana[m]>i do not know wisp well enough to tell you, unfortunately

<juliana[m]>however, if you work through the paper in a repl session, you shouldn't actually need that file

<juliana[m]>(another option is to just use traditional Guile but if you're new to Guile and Scheme then that might add undue cognitive overhead)

<juliana[m]>traditional Guile syntax*

<mossfet>yuh

<mossfet>yh*

<mossfet>i'll figure it out tomorrow, i'm sleepy now

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