From 6838e4da9712425e7e45805a73731bb399d90a86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:03:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: reference ice-9, scheme, and srfi * doc/ref/tour.texi (Using Modules): reference ice-9, scheme, and srfi. --- doc/ref/tour.texi | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/ref/tour.texi b/doc/ref/tour.texi index c0ecb1699..91eb10bb9 100644 --- a/doc/ref/tour.texi +++ b/doc/ref/tour.texi @@ -210,6 +210,16 @@ processing or command line parsing. Additionally, there exist many Guile modules written by other Guile hackers, but which have to be installed manually. +Most provided modules use prefixes based on their origin: + +@itemize @bullet +@item @code{ice-9} includes guile-specific modules: the standard library of Guile. @xref{Status, History of ice-9, History of ice-9} +@item @code{rnrs} and @code{scheme} include modules from the RnRS standard (@url{https://standards.scheme.org/}). @xref{R7RS Support} and @xref{R6RS Support} +@item @code{srfi} includes Scheme Requests For Implementation; SRFI’s (@url{https://srfi.schemers.org/}). @xref{SRFI Support} +@item Some larger features have their own prefix. These include @code{web} (@pxref{Web}), @code{oop} (@xref{GOOPS}), @code{sxml} (@pxref{SXML}), and @code{language} (@pxref{Other Languages}). +@end itemize + + Here is a sample interactive session that shows how to use the @code{(ice-9 popen)} module which provides the means for communicating with other processes over pipes together with the @code{(ice-9 -- 2.45.1