From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.7-25-g990b11c Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:34:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9sew36x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k3rj3ak7.fsf@gnu.org> <87txqnxy4j.fsf@pobox.com> <87d2xbz3us.fsf@gnu.org> <878v7ysa5t.fsf@tines.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358022898 31774 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2013 20:34:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 12 21:35:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu7nL-0001pP-Gk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:35:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu7n5-0004R6-Fq for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu7mz-0004Qy-P2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:34:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu7mt-0005Qx-T2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:34:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.105]:6680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu7mt-0005Qj-Bj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:34:43 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,458,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="168259834" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO pluto) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 12 Jan 2013 21:34:30 +0100 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 23 =?utf-8?Q?Niv=C3=B4se?= an 221 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <878v7ysa5t.fsf@tines.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:17:34 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.134.164.105 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:15409 Archived-At: Hi! Mark H Weaver skribis: > FWIW, I agree with Andy that it would be good to support texinfo markup > in docstrings. At present, the docstrings for procedures implemented in > C are much nicer looking than the Scheme ones. Hmm, they just look the same since they are already rendered. > I've been sad to see the recent patches that strip texinfo markup from > docstrings. That's going in the wrong direction, IMO. That=E2=80=99s going in the direction of having docstrings usable /now/, wh= ere no rendering occurs. > Regarding 'procedure-documentation', I think it should return the > rendered version, just like it does for procedures defined in C. Yes, probably. One problem to keep in mind is that (texinfo ...) is only able to render a small subset of Texinfo. That=E2=80=99s probably OK for docstrings, thou= gh. Ludo=E2=80=99.