From: Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>
To: mikael@djurfeldt.com
Cc: Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz>,
"guile-devel@gnu.org" <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: Ability to document variables like defvar in elisp
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 16:10:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6121906-bf76-64dd-f29a-271ee95db7af@abou-samra.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2XvwLbm4k=KsduoR-wJ9+rEYB-=PYoxt=0cgV-8PQYoBpWRQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Le 02/11/2022 à 11:15, Mikael Djurfeldt a écrit :
> (define a 5)
> (set-object-property! (module-variable (current-module) 'a)
> 'documentation "The variable a contains a number.")
> ?
Why not, but I wanted to point out that variable documentation
cannot be done in a way that is consistent with procedure documentation.
It needs to be a different mechanism, tied to the module system, which
brings some restrictions (what about local variables?).
Best,
Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-04 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 1:08 Feature request: Ability to document variables like defvar in elisp Jacob Hrbek
2022-11-02 8:28 ` Jean Abou Samra
2022-11-02 10:15 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2022-11-04 15:10 ` Jean Abou Samra [this message]
2022-11-05 4:19 ` Jacob Hrbek
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