On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Alex Shinn wrote:

> It's the environment programs start with.
>
> The result is that any program can be cut&paste into
> an interactive REPL and still work, and any interactive
> session can be saved and used as a program, so long
> as it's prefixed with (import (scheme base)).

Even if the program contains imports conflicting with prior imports or bindings
in the REPL (assuming as John does a non-empty REPL), or redefinitions of
bindings previously imported into the REPL?

If so, the behaviour of teplevel import would be different from that of module
level imports.  Maybe this should be clarified more.

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