Missing Pieces

Missing Pieces

[Brian S McQueen]

Somehow I am missing out on a lot of information about guile.  For
instance, as I browsed some old email list today I see there is a function
c-string, mentioned as though it were common knowledge and part of some
familiar library.  How are new-comers to guile going to learn about all
the great things you all have produced.  Just yesterday I found out about
this:  (help cons*).  A built-in help feature and I didn't even know about
it.  I have been reading the headers for libguile, poking around in the
srfi and ice-9 scheme directories, but that is not enough.  I have read
the guile web pages many times by now.  Does anyone have any suggestions
to helping out new-comers to guile?  I guess what is needed is a book like
the old Perl 4 book where all the nooks and crannys of Perl were laid
bare - one of those O'Reilly type books.

Brian


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Re: Missing Pieces

[Issac Trotts]

I've been getting some pretty good mileage out of the r5rs document.  You
can find a pdf version with a google search.  It's about 50 pages of helpful
stuff, though none of it is specific to guile.

Issac


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian S McQueen" <bqueen@nas.nasa.gov>
To: <guile-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:52 PM
Subject: Missing Pieces


> Somehow I am missing out on a lot of information about guile.  For
> instance, as I browsed some old email list today I see there is a function
> c-string, mentioned as though it were common knowledge and part of some
> familiar library.  How are new-comers to guile going to learn about all
> the great things you all have produced.  Just yesterday I found out about
> this:  (help cons*).  A built-in help feature and I didn't even know about
> it.  I have been reading the headers for libguile, poking around in the
> srfi and ice-9 scheme directories, but that is not enough.  I have read
> the guile web pages many times by now.  Does anyone have any suggestions
> to helping out new-comers to guile?  I guess what is needed is a book like
> the old Perl 4 book where all the nooks and crannys of Perl were laid
> bare - one of those O'Reilly type books.
>
> Brian
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Guile-user mailing list
> Guile-user@gnu.org
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
>




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