From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Blake Shaw Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:23:36 +0700 Message-ID: <87y22ken9j.fsf@nonconstructivism.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8536"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Chris Vine Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 09 04:24:46 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nHdb3-00022M-Pk for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 04:24:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nHdb2-0006En-BG for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:24:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46496) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nHdaQ-0006Ct-Nc for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from out0.migadu.com ([94.23.1.103]:23138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nHdaK-0000o8-Um for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:24:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nonconstructivism.com; s=key1; t=1644377016; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=reWyLZZZZCzN9+7nZEtedbd5K3QaBXKkAK8Ceq8VVpo=; b=Eqh9TH5Bd6+jqCWfwe+sXkW122IyzBHwNizaSPhslZ8ojarGoNYyOEKqHnOweJv6Q8eFp9 +2nV1g8tx9p3whuiqP/bD+FjmQEA3dePOwvUEo/U6ILh/m0Pt/r+sli4CO72IgArD1fFcb SGrZBYrUR048Au7SoYvrqBiSn/OmUvA= Gcc: nnimap+imap.migadu.de:sent.2022 X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: nonconstructivism.com Received-SPF: pass client-ip=94.23.1.103; envelope-from=blake@nonconstructivism.com; helo=out0.migadu.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, T_SPF_HELO_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:18044 Archived-At: Chris Vine writes: > Everything is capable of improvement but the guile manual is a manual > and not I think primarily intended as a language tutorial (although > Chapter 3 of the manual does have a very cursory introduction to the > scheme language). If you are looking for a tutorial, I suggest reading > https://www.scheme.com/tspl4/ . It covers the R6RS flavour, but at the > tutorial level I don't think the various current standard flavours > (R5RS, R6RS and R7RS) matter too much. > > I would be reluctant to see the manual turned into a tutorial if that > were to mean abridging any of its current completeness. > For sure, but I didn't say anything about the manual here or anything about a tutorial. -- “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”