Re: Trouble trying to use some modules from the docs

[Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>]

On 06/02/2018 10:13 AM, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
> Hello Guile mailing list members,
>
> Guile Scheme beginner here.
>
> I want to play with network programming things in Guile a little, but I
> cannot figure out how to use the modules, which are described in the
> docs at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Network-Sockets-and-Communication.html
> .
>
> There is no (use-modules ...) example anywhere I looked and I could also
> not find any examples in search engines. For other modules I somehow
> always found an example (use-modules ...) somewhere, mostly in the docs.
>
> Is there some inherent way of simply knowing how to import a module? I
> did not read all of the docs from front to back, but that really should
> not be necessary in order to use some part of it.
>
> What I've tried already:
>
> (use-modules (ice-9 posix))  ; maybe the same way many other things are
> imported?
> (use-modules (posix))  ; maybe it's its own module?
> (use-modules (std posix))  ; maybe "std" for "standard" works?
>
> None of those worked in the REPL.
>
> A search on Github:
>
> https://github.com/cky/guile/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=use-modules+posix&type=
>
> Yielded the following interesting result:
>
> https://github.com/cky/guile/blob/c1eb929258fc6b9653d31c0d1bc654d9e300d4e5/module/ice-9/boot-9.scm#L1445
>
> But why does (use-modules (ice-9 posix)) not work then? I am out of ideas.
>
> Can you point me to the part of the docs, which explain how to always
> know how to import a module, if there is such? Or, if there is no such
> thing, can you help me out in this case?
>
> Regards,
>
> Zelphir
>
The manual is not crystal clear in all uses of procedures.  The posix procedures are built-in so
no `(use-module ...)' is necessary.  The test is to just type the procedure name. You will get a
procedure object in return. see example below. (Note this does not work with syntax.)

mwette$ guile
GNU Guile 2.2.3
Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.

scheme@(guile-user)> getaddrinfo
$1 = #<procedure getaddrinfo (_ #:optional _ _ _ _ _)>

scheme@(guile-user)>