macro namespace voodoo

[paultag]

(import string)
(print string)

will work in a file, but not the REPL due to how the compiler shims in core stuff.

wat do.

One idea is to make the internals smarter, and don't blindly trust the core name, check for assignment, and do that, but this means we're doing static analysts, and stuff altered at runtime will break in a bad way.

What do? D:

[paultag]

Always import core stuff at the top of any compile session, and move it out of the expression compile?

[paultag]

IDEAS WE NEED IDEAS

[Kodiologist]

#791 is a duplicate of this, but I'll close this one, sincer there's more discussion over there.