Problem with context creation in packages
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg30456] Problem with context creation in packages
- From: "Emilio Martin-Serrano Sobrino" <emilio.martin at sema.es>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:41:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi:
I am trying to load two packages with the following headings:
1 ->
BeginPackage["Islm`EquilibriumStageTrasitionISLM`","Utilities`ISLMmodel`"]
2 -> BeginPackage["Islm`ISLMFunctions`","Utilities`ISLMmodel`","Islm`
EquilibriumStageTransitionsISLM`"].
When I invoke these packages within a notebook I get this
In[1] := Needs["Islm`EquilibriumStageTransitionISLM`"]
Out[1]:= Needs::nocont: Context Islm`EquilibriumStageTransitionISLM` was not
created when Needs was evaluated.
In[2]:= Needs["Islm`ISLMFunctions`"]
Out[2]:= Needs::nocont: Context Islm`EquilibriumStageTransitionISLM` was not
created when Needs was evaluated.
However, if I execute
In[6]:=?Islm`EquilibriumStageTrasitionISLM`*
I can see that all the symbols in the package have been created, (and the
same for In[7]:= ?Islm`ISLMFunctions`* )
And, If I execute
In[8]:= $ContextPath
Out[8]:=
{Islm`ISLMFunctions`,Islm`EquilibriumStageTrasitionISLM`,Utilities`ISLMmodel
`, ............}
Which tells me the target context names have been put in the ContextPath.
(Why so, if the context has not been created?)
Then, I check all the functions and symbols in these packages and all them
(but two) seem to work perfectly. The two symbols that do not work are in
the package *Islm`ISLMFunctions* and they use two symbols imported from
the package *Islm`EquilibriumStageTrasitionISLM* (remember, it is the one
whose context was no created). And this seems to be the reason why these two
symbols do not work, since the imported symbols from the package
*Islm`EquilibriumStageTrasitionISLM* are re-declared as private in the
package *Islm`ISLMFunctions*. I think this re-declaration `informs` that
the imported symbol has not been found because the corresponding context
does not actually exist.
The two packages *Islm`EquilibriumStageTrasitionISLM`* and
*Islm`ISLMFunctions`* use symbols and functions in equivalent syntactical
positions to the one that is re-declared, but these symbols that work ok
come from the other packages, and everything goes OK.
Of course, I did not get any other error message o warnings on syntactical
problems.
Could anyone give a clue on the apparent contradiction.
Emilio Martin-Serrano
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