doc bug: object property `name'

doc bug: object property `name'

[Jon Wilson]

Hi all,
In the guile manual (at 
"http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-ref/Object-Properties.html#Object%20Properties"), 
in the second paragraph, we see

  "For example, all procedures have a `name' property, which stores the 
name of the variable in which the procedure was stored by a define 
expression, or #f if the procedure wasn't created by that kind of expression."

But I can't find any way to get at that `name' property.  Not that I need 
to, I'm just curious.  Does this name property exist?  If so, how do we 
access it?  Either the phrase identifying it should be removed from the 
manual, or it should be explained how it can be reached.

Regards,
Jon


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Re: doc bug: object property `name'

[Marius Vollmer]

Jon Wilson <j85wilson@fastmail.fm> writes:

> Hi all,
> In the guile manual (at
> "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-ref/Object-Properties.html#Object%20Properties"),
> in the second paragraph, we see
>
>   "For example, all procedures have a `name' property, which stores
>   the name of the variable in which the procedure was stored by a
>   define expression, or #f if the procedure wasn't created by that
>   kind of expression."
>
> But I can't find any way to get at that `name' property.

Right.  I removed that confusing paragraph.  (In CVS, but not on the
web.  Anybody? :-)

> Not that I need to, I'm just curious.  Does this name property
> exist?  If so, how do we access it?

You can get it with 'procedure-property' but not with the procedures
described in the section where you found the paragraph.

    guile> (procedure-property load 'name)
    load-module

We could clean up our many property interfaces...

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Re: doc bug: object property `name'

[Kevin Ryde]

Jon Wilson <j85wilson@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
> But I can't find any way to get at that `name' property.  Not that I
> need to, I'm just curious.

`procedure-name', which is separate from those object property bits.

> the phrase identifying it should be removed from the manual,

Thanks, I'll do that.


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