Re: Problem with context creation in packages
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- Subject: [mg30467] Re: Problem with context creation in packages
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 02:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Emilio,
The local name of the package file:
"Islm`EquilibriumStageTransitionISLM`"
and the package context:
"Islm`EquilibriumStageTrasitionISLM`"
should be the same
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Allan
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"Emilio Martin-Serrano Sobrino" <emilio.martin at sema.es> wrote in message
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> 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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