Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Aug 2 06:49:38 CEST 2004

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> That might be over-cautious.  It's probably safe to keep modules whose body 
> code executed without error.

No, it's not. If A and B import each other, and A fails after
importing B, then B ends up with a reference to a broken A
even though it executed without error.

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