How do I import canisters dynamically using ic-repl?

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function __main(registration_canister_arg) {
    import registration = registration_canister_arg;

    // Load the account WASM file
    let account_wasm = file("./target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/debug/account.wasm");

    // Log the size of the WASM file
    output("deploy_account.log", stringify("Account WASM size: ", account_wasm.size(), " bytes\n"));

    // Call the registration canister to load the WASM
    call registration.load_wallet_wasm();
    let load_result = _;

    // Log the result
    output("deploy_account.log", stringify("Load wallet WASM result: ", load_result, "\n"));

    // Check if loading was successful

    if (eq(load_result, "Ok")) {
    output("deploy_account.log", "Error: Failed to load wallet WASM\n");
    } else {
    output("deploy_account.log", "Successfully loaded wallet WASM\n");
    };

    // Deploy a new account canister
    call registration.deploy_account();
    let deploy_result = _;

    // Log the result
    output("deploy_account.log", stringify("Deploy account result: ", deploy_result, "\n"));

    // Check if deployment was successful
    if (exist(deploy_result.Err)) {
    output("deploy_account.log", stringify("Error deploying account: ", deploy_result.Err, "\n"));
    } else {
    output("deploy_account.log", stringify("Successfully deployed new account canister with ID: ", deploy_result, "\n"));
    }
};

✗ ic-repl load_wasm -- "b77ix-eeaaa-aaaaa-qaada-cai"
Ping http://localhost:4943/...
Canister REPL
error: parser error
  ┌─ load_wasm:2:27
  │
2 │     import registration = registration_canister_arg;
  │                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Unexpected token
  │
  = Expects "text"

Error: Unrecognized token `Id("registration_canister_arg")` found at 71:96
Expected one of "text"
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That’s probably a bug. Import only takes raw text, not a variable. But unless you want to specify the did file, you can pass in a principal, and avoid using import. For example

function __main(registration) {
  let load_result = call registration.load_wallet_wasm();
}

$ ic-repl load_wasm -- 'principal "b77ix-eeaaa-aaaaa-qaada-cai"'
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