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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>,
	guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
	guix-blog@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:46:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh1ot9m5.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87va6kuyk4.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>


Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Apparently the formatting of the REPL was also confusing ("What is this
> dollar thing, is it some result?" kind of confusion).
> What about changing the formatting to
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (display (string-append "Hello " foo "\n"))
> => Hello World
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Or should I use a Unicode arrow (e.g. ⇒ in the Guile manual)?

The dollar thing is for return values.  The Guile manual uses the arrow,
but that would be incorrect in the above example as “Hello world” is not
returned by “display” — it is merely a side effect.  In the Guile manual
this would be indicated by “⊣”.

-- 
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-02 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-13 10:50 Blog: Guix packaging tutorial Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-13 11:16 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-13 11:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-13 12:04   ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-13 19:11 ` Andreas Enge
2018-09-14 11:07   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 11:33     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-24 17:00       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-24 17:37         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-27 13:43           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-27 17:34             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-29 16:28               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-29 21:18           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-30 19:01             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-30 19:44               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-30 21:14                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-02 12:12                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-02 16:02                     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-02 19:46                       ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-10-03  8:10                         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-03 18:16                           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 12:20                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-08 15:18                             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-08 18:41                               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 19:06                                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 19:59                                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-08 22:09                                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 22:33                                     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-08 23:45                                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-10 11:56                                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-10 13:20                                           ` George Clemmer
2018-10-10 13:31                                             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-10 14:13                                               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-10 14:00                                         ` Guix packaging tutorial is on-line! Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-10 14:12                                           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-10 15:07                                             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-10 16:09                                               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-11 13:41                                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-11 16:34                                               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-11 16:51                                                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-15 12:02                                                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-15 12:39                                                     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-20 19:58                                         ` Blog: Guix packaging tutorial Divan
2018-10-21 10:30                                           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-21 11:21                                             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-22 20:40                                               ` Divan Santana
2018-10-22 21:11                                                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-26 10:20         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-26 10:28           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-27 11:56             ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-10-08 22:54 Benjamin Slade
2018-10-08 23:05 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-10-09  0:04   ` Benjamin Slade
2018-10-10  9:02     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-11  1:38       ` Benjamin Slade
2018-10-11  9:37         ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-11 13:39         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-12  1:05           ` Benjamin Slade

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