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From: Christina O'Donnell <cdo@mutix.org>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Getting all symbols in a Scheme file as a list
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 19:50:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03f7199a-daf2-e070-8156-6837d7e20e32@mutix.org> (raw)

Hi,

I'm trying to write a Guile script to trace symbol definition and reference
between modules in a large Guile repo (GNU/Guix), for the purposes of large
scale refactoring.

I'm wondering how I could programmatically get all the values in a 
Scheme file
as an S-expression. From the manual, I know that the REPL has meta keyword
',binding' and ',apropos'
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#index-apropos> 
which let
you search and list all bindings in accessible to a module. These are 
exactly
what I need only, since they're meta-commands, they don't produce Scheme
expressions.

Does anyone have any pointers? Should I go down the route of,

    (open-input-pipe (string-append "guile -l" file "-c ,binding"))

? Seems a little bit baroque to me, I'd expect a simpler way of doing 
it. Any
libraries anyone knows of?

Kind regards,
  - Christina





             reply	other threads:[~2024-02-04 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-04 19:50 Christina O'Donnell [this message]
2024-02-04 21:03 ` Getting all symbols in a Scheme file as a list M
2024-02-05 13:04   ` Christina O'Donnell

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