From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: What's with `symbol-set!' is deprecated. Use the module system instead. Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:37:42 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8762hwmjp5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323013088 27615 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2011 15:38:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:38:08 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 04 16:38:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXE8f-0007MZ-Az for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:38:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXE8e-0002Bj-Hg for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXE8c-0002BS-8k for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXE8b-00036a-Cc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXE8b-00036W-6J for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXE8a-0007LQ-1J for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:37:56 +0100 Original-Received: from p508eb953.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.185.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:37:56 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p508eb953.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:37:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508eb953.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ezuTKgkkz2mjtb4saIXaNKyn0Cw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12959 Archived-At: The module system documentation provides _no_ _clue_ _whatsoever_ about how something like (symbol-set! #f (string->symbol name) value) could be replaced. In fact, the module system documentation provides _no_ _clue_ _whatsoever_ how to actually access module variables short of calling eval on little programs working with symbols. I don't want to call eval for the simple act of setting a symbol to a value. The funny thing is that symbol-fset! and symbol-pset! are documented. But nothing whatsoever that could set a symbol value itself on a symbol that has been generated. What's up with that? -- David Kastrup