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Question: Help Example for Module Use Statements has unexpected behaviour

Question:Help Example for Module Use Statements has unexpected behaviour

ianmccr 170 Maple 2016
March 18 2018
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I am puzzled by the strange behaviour of the following exampleSectionaken directly from the Programming Guide section 8.6. When I copy the example from the help to a worksheet as follows, I get an error stating that module m does not evaluate to a module in the use statement. 

> m := module() export a, b; a := 2; b := 3; end module:
use m in a + b end use;

Error: `m` does not evaluateto a module.

However, after a restart, when I execute the two statements as separate statements (separate prompts), the module does evaluate properly.

My question is, what is the safe workaround in coding to avoid this situation.

I have attached the worksheet.moduleeval.mw
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