With this semantics, we hope to get as close as possible to the clear semantics without the presence of a module system. Applications using modules should consider using use_module/[1,2].
Equivalent to load_files(Files, [if(not_loaded)]).
56On
older versions the condition used to be if(changed)
. Poor
time management on some machines or copying often caused problems. The make/0
predicate deals with updating the running system after changing the
source code.