Is this right? Multiple imports of same module.

[Ben Finney]

Lou Pecora <pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> ['import mymodule' in three separate modules]
>
> Then mymodule is imported only once, but each module has access to
> it through the module name (mod1 and mod2) and the alias MM (mod3).
> Is that right?

Not quite. The module is imported three times, and is assigned to
three different namespaces; but the code in the module is executed
only once, the first time it is imported. Each subsequent import skips
the "execute the code" step.

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Ben Finney