flan/test/programs/pkg-cycle.flan
Joseph Ferano c604911ecb A ring of imports is refused by name, not swallowed
Loading a package kept one table, keyed by real path, and used it for two
different questions. Already loaded meant "skip", which is right for the second
route of a diamond and wrong for a ring: a package that imported itself round a
chain met its own entry, contributed nothing, and appeared to work. The comment
said so and called it a feature.

It is not one. A ring has no package order, and a definite package order is what
the macro expander needs — every defmacro has to be compiled before anything
that calls it. So the chain currently being read is now carried separately from
the set already finished. A directory found in the first is a cycle and is
refused; a directory found only in the second is still the diamond's second
route and still a no-op.

The refusal names the ring — a -> b -> c -> a — and only the ring, not the route
that led to it. "There is a cycle" leaves the reader to find which three imports
it was.

pkgs now comes back dependencies-first, which is the topological order the
acyclic rule buys. The declaration list is left alone: check.ml collects every
top-level name before it checks any body, so declarations are order-independent
by construction and sorting them would be churn in the field every test reads.

The tests are a real tree rather than a second copy of pkg-shared. pkg-diamond
builds a shape/Box inside area/ and hands it to a function declared inside
draw/, which only type-checks if the bottom package was read once — two copies
of one struct are two types. What proves it is the numbers, not the compile.
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;;;; An import ring, which is refused and named.
;;;;
;;;; ring-a imports ring-b imports ring-c imports ring-a. Nothing about the
;;;; flat namespace makes this impossible — an earlier version let the
;;;; already-loaded check swallow the second arrival and the three packages
;;;; appeared to work — but a ring has no package order, and a definite
;;;; package order is what the macro expander will need, since a defmacro must
;;;; be compiled before anything that calls it. So it is refused, and the
;;;; refusal names the ring rather than the one import that happened to close
;;;; it last.
(import a "pkgs/ring-a")
(defn main [] i32
(print (a/step 1)) (println "")
0)