* Documentation of reduce in guile manual
@ 2011-04-12 12:00 David Kastrup
2011-04-14 8:00 ` Andy Wingo
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From: David Kastrup @ 2011-04-12 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-guile
In the guile manual (listed as
ii guile-1.6-doc 1.6.8-10build1 Reference and tutorial documentation for Guile 1.6
on my system)
in node
(info "(guile) SRFI-1 Fold and Map")
I read
-- Scheme Procedure: reduce f ridentity lst
`reduce' is a variant of `reduce'. If LST is `()', RIDENTITY is
returned. Otherwise, `(fold (car LST) (cdr LST))' is returned.
The first and the last sentence look pretty much nonsensical to me.
--
David Kastrup
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2011-04-12 12:00 Documentation of reduce in guile manual David Kastrup
@ 2011-04-14 8:00 ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-14 8:18 ` David Kastrup
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From: Andy Wingo @ 2011-04-14 8:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Kastrup; +Cc: bug-guile
On Tue 12 Apr 2011 14:00, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> In the guile manual (listed as
> ii guile-1.6-doc
For words that aren't ten years old, try Guile 2.0, which fixes this
issue, among others.
Happy hacking,
Andy
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* Re: Documentation of reduce in guile manual
2011-04-14 8:00 ` Andy Wingo
@ 2011-04-14 8:18 ` David Kastrup
2011-04-14 8:37 ` Andy Wingo
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From: David Kastrup @ 2011-04-14 8:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Wingo; +Cc: bug-guile
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> On Tue 12 Apr 2011 14:00, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> In the guile manual (listed as
>> ii guile-1.6-doc
>
> For words that aren't ten years old, try Guile 2.0, which fixes this
> issue, among others.
It is the version of guile with the API used in the very latest versions
of Debian and Ubuntu (to be released), so the "10 year old words" will
stick around for at least a year.
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David Kastrup
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* Re: Documentation of reduce in guile manual
2011-04-14 8:18 ` David Kastrup
@ 2011-04-14 8:37 ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-14 10:23 ` David Kastrup
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From: Andy Wingo @ 2011-04-14 8:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Kastrup; +Cc: bug-guile
On Thu 14 Apr 2011 10:18, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue 12 Apr 2011 14:00, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> In the guile manual (listed as
>>> ii guile-1.6-doc
>>
>> For words that aren't ten years old, try Guile 2.0, which fixes this
>> issue, among others.
>
> It is the version of guile with the API used in the very latest versions
> of Debian and Ubuntu (to be released), so the "10 year old words" will
> stick around for at least a year.
I believe they also package guile-1.8-doc, which are merely 5 year old
words.
Andy
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* Re: Documentation of reduce in guile manual
2011-04-14 8:37 ` Andy Wingo
@ 2011-04-14 10:23 ` David Kastrup
2011-04-14 14:26 ` Andy Wingo
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From: David Kastrup @ 2011-04-14 10:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Wingo; +Cc: bug-guile
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> On Thu 14 Apr 2011 10:18, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue 12 Apr 2011 14:00, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> In the guile manual (listed as
>>>> ii guile-1.6-doc
>>>
>>> For words that aren't ten years old, try Guile 2.0, which fixes this
>>> issue, among others.
>>
>> It is the version of guile with the API used in the very latest versions
>> of Debian and Ubuntu (to be released), so the "10 year old words" will
>> stick around for at least a year.
>
> I believe they also package guile-1.8-doc, which are merely 5 year old
> words.
Well, that explains some. It would appear that
a) docs are not installed by default, one has to install them manually
b) there is no metapackage guile-doc, so one has to specify versions
explicitly
c) once one installs guile-1.6-doc, dpkg is happy to keep it around even
when one upgrades guile to 1.8
d) deinstalling guile-1.6-doc after installing guile-1.8-doc*,
one needs to look for the file "guile-1.8" as info. guile.info no
longer is there, even after running dpkg-reconfigure on the
guile-1.8-doc* packages.
e) the documentation for reduce indeed is quite better.
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David Kastrup
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* Re: Documentation of reduce in guile manual
2011-04-14 10:23 ` David Kastrup
@ 2011-04-14 14:26 ` Andy Wingo
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From: Andy Wingo @ 2011-04-14 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Kastrup; +Cc: bug-guile
Hi David,
On Thu 14 Apr 2011 12:23, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> a) docs are not installed by default, one has to install them manually
> b) there is no metapackage guile-doc, so one has to specify versions
> explicitly
> c) once one installs guile-1.6-doc, dpkg is happy to keep it around even
> when one upgrades guile to 1.8
> d) deinstalling guile-1.6-doc after installing guile-1.8-doc*,
> one needs to look for the file "guile-1.8" as info. guile.info no
> longer is there, even after running dpkg-reconfigure on the
> guile-1.8-doc* packages.
> e) the documentation for reduce indeed is quite better.
Thanks! I believe credit goes to Kevin Ryde, who has moved on to other
things.
With regards to the Debian packages, I'm afraid this is the wrong forum
:-) I hear that 2.0 packages are in the works, so your feedback might
be useful, over that way:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615479
Regards,
Andy
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