From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Llorens <daniel.llorens@bluewin.ch>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (help) vs ,describe
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:26:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txq9y3dq.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE3C85E7-2D7C-4030-B979-78B3BBFA1302@bluewin.ch> (Daniel Llorens's message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:03:37 +0100")
On Mon 21 Jan 2013 16:03, Daniel Llorens <daniel.llorens@bluewin.ch> writes:
> (help) doesn't seem to work for procedures defined in the REPL.
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (define (hello x) "hello for x" x)
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (procedure-properties hello)
> $1 = ((arity 1 0 #f) (name . hello) (documentation . "hello for x"))
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> ,describe hello
> hello for x
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (help hello)
> Did not find any object named `hello'
>
scheme@(guile-user)> (export hello)
scheme@(guile-user)> (help hello)
`hello' is a procedure in the (guile-user) module.
hello for x
The reason is the use of apropos-fold-exported in (ice-9 session)'s
`help-doc'.
Want to propose a patch that makes more sense, including private
bindings from the current module?
Andy
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2013-01-21 15:03 (help) vs ,describe Daniel Llorens
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