From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noah Lavine Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Lack of Documentation for (ice-9 regex) in Guile 1.9.10 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:36:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274319381 13870 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2010 01:36:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 01:36:21 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 03:36:20 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEugO-0004ok-1Q for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 03:36:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEugN-0004W2-EQ for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 21:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48725 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEugE-0004Vx-Jw for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 21:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEugD-00082P-Jx for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 21:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:52247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEugD-00082H-GJ for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 21:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so3012463iwn.0 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 18:36:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=+I9LwgGoioaMEm0mufWRlcoYSn8EqpUpTkfCpoMKdT4=; b=ODSBMDLmVgUCWUR/X9/OKdW2RYxX7y7kT03T+b5hvBQwNxPpIc13WVLVptNC5Fejev kutZ8rAjNSL4ardEIqCJYNBH45h/1aZaJ7oAGjyiimo5knzayEVkmWxt8HGYV+J6tYqK bG6Ut3S+5+2W0xCoj6Cr0BPQmAhfEnlQvE+u8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=aSxZjxyJvFRHD1gVOwspjQxEyTl0O3R2odlP7Q500yvFeHbY9vE9n2tedOyNXEadoS NBD5O5+2WqIJ+8bgRebGOpMU7RWv+AUDbS1Dz6QaAJ6jFiwBDWUkBTdImDd5dswyP3rh +TAdzzoDHYddjsjTmMxfRc5s+3UwMFd5LMfhw= Original-Received: by 10.231.167.144 with SMTP id q16mr1760675iby.34.1274319368654; Wed, 19 May 2010 18:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.33.10 with HTTP; Wed, 19 May 2010 18:36:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:4595 Archived-At: I found the documentation in info - sorry for the confusion. It didn't occur to me that a regexp would be considered a "Simple Data Type". On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Noah Lavine wrote: > I can't find documentation for the (ice-9 regex) module in Guile 1.9.10. > > Specifically, I looked in the info pages and couldn't find anything on > it (or regular expressions in general). > > Then I tried using the on-line documentation, but running `,describe > (@ (ice-9 regex) string-match)` produces `#f`. (`,describe > make-regexp` and `,describe regexp-exec` returned information, but > it's not useful unless you can find out what a match object is, which > is what lead me to this problem) > > Thank you > Noah Lavine >