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From: "Issac Trotts" <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: Missing Pieces
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:02:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003701c3dbd4$d9130d40$8d8d7880@UCDAVIS.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.58.0401151641090.20079@marcy.nas.nasa.gov

I've been getting some pretty good mileage out of the r5rs document.  You
can find a pdf version with a google search.  It's about 50 pages of helpful
stuff, though none of it is specific to guile.

Issac


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian S McQueen" <bqueen@nas.nasa.gov>
To: <guile-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:52 PM
Subject: Missing Pieces


> Somehow I am missing out on a lot of information about guile.  For
> instance, as I browsed some old email list today I see there is a function
> c-string, mentioned as though it were common knowledge and part of some
> familiar library.  How are new-comers to guile going to learn about all
> the great things you all have produced.  Just yesterday I found out about
> this:  (help cons*).  A built-in help feature and I didn't even know about
> it.  I have been reading the headers for libguile, poking around in the
> srfi and ice-9 scheme directories, but that is not enough.  I have read
> the guile web pages many times by now.  Does anyone have any suggestions
> to helping out new-comers to guile?  I guess what is needed is a book like
> the old Perl 4 book where all the nooks and crannys of Perl were laid
> bare - one of those O'Reilly type books.
>
> Brian
>
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16  2:02 UTC|newest]

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2004-01-16  0:52 Missing Pieces Brian S McQueen
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