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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scm_ documentation
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:46:11 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slq7upyk.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 43FBA122.1020002@fastmail.fm

Jon Wilson <j85wilson@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
> Everything in this email still applies to 1.6, however.

Alas the 1.6 manual hasn't been getting updates, not beyond the level
of fixing outright errors.

> I actually intended to mean that the gh_ to scm_ section was not a
> very complete documentation of the scm_ interface.  Of course, there
> is no reason it should be a complete doc of scm_; that is not its
> purpose.

Yep.

> In the absence of any other scm_ doc, the statement should
> be taken to mean that the only existing doc (that I could find) for
> scm_ is rather incomplete.

In 1.8 it's improving.

> scm_mem2str is the particular one that I was looking for.  It is
> mentioned on the gh_ to scm_ transition page as the scm_ replacement
> for gh_str2scm.

Hmm.  Yes, alas only digging in the source reveals what it does :-(.

> Also, all of the following are found on the gh_ to scm_ page, but are
> not mentioned in the procedure index.

They've improved in the new release, I think they're all in good shape
now.

> What was I recommending?

I meant if the manual recommends you transition to something, then
that something ought to be described ...


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-25 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21  0:31 scm_ documentation Jon Wilson
2006-02-21 20:25 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-02-21 23:24   ` Jon Wilson
2006-02-25 20:46     ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2006-02-25 22:43       ` Jon Wilson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-20 22:14 Jon Wilson

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