From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: scm_ documentation Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:46:11 +1100 Message-ID: <87slq7upyk.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <43FA5F64.7010308@fastmail.fm> <871wxwlasj.fsf@zip.com.au> <43FBA122.1020002@fastmail.fm> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140901550 8119 80.91.229.2 (25 Feb 2006 21:05:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 25 22:05:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FD6bo-0001kj-OG for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:05:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FD6br-0000c4-FD for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FD6bc-0000Z5-2j for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FD6bY-0000U5-GH for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:05:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FD6bX-0000TO-Ux for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FD6bu-0004x8-OS for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.115] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FD6JK-0006Ye-V5 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D636EFD9; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:46:32 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2575.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.37.117]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k1PKkUro015437; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:46:32 +1100 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FD6Iu-0001sF-00; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:46:12 +1100 Original-To: Jon Wilson User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:5189 Archived-At: Jon Wilson 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 ... _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user