From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Unclear documentation: "Options and Config", set! and enable/disable Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:27 +1000 Message-ID: <87y890ocs4.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <42B8387C.4040903@mail.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119570616 16588 80.91.229.2 (23 Jun 2005 23:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 01:50:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlbST-0007sF-KB for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:50:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlbZO-0005lw-Lq for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlbYn-0005NU-VB for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlbYk-0005M1-Tk for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:56:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlbYj-0005JX-HX for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.84] (helo=mailout1.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DlbUf-0005hR-1c for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87]) by mailout1.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j5NNmpjv013465; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:51 +1000 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2EAC.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.46.172]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j5NNmouX028359; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:50 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DlbQq-0001Tm-00; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:28 +1000 Original-To: Alan Grover In-Reply-To: <42B8387C.4040903@mail.msen.com> (Alan Grover's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:55:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3030 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3030 Alan Grover writes: > > It isn't clear from the documentation how to use the "User Level Options > Interfaces" (chapter "Configuration, Features and Runtime Options"). Alas, yes. > Apparently, all of the -set! are macros, and interpret the first > argument as a symbol. Perhaps this was an attempt to make this interface > appear analogous to set!, despite the option-symbols not being > defined/bound. An example of a macro only serving to obscure :(. _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile