From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie packagers
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:41:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vazxrgj7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRq=qKf76bRZ3MZv-tEi2rpwOtwjGNPyvvAh7mY9xMXc-6=w@mail.gmail.com> (Vincent Legoll's message of "Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:04:36 +0200")
Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:
> quick ideas:
>
> 1 - the concept index has those: ! # ( . / maybe add ` ' , ,@ with
> their aliases / long names alongside (quote, quasiquote, unquote,
> unquote-splicing)
Good idea.
> 2 - they are well hidden in :
>
> The Guile Reference Manual
> API Reference
> Reading and Evaluating Scheme Code
> Scheme Syntax: Standard and Guile Extensions
> Expression Syntax
>
> That's far away, and the title don't help find them...
>
> In the mean time I did a search "guile scheme quote", and indeed the
> right doc page is there (16th on duckduckgo), and google is way
> better (1st place)...
>
> I forgot that sometimes google gives better answers than ddg...
I have no control over search engines. :-)
> 3 - I'd add the following to (unquote-splicing expr):
>
> `(1 ,x 4) ⇒ (1 (2 3) 4)
>
> to better demonstrate the effect of splicing
>
> and to (unquote expr) :
>
> `(1 2 (* 9 9) 3 4) ⇒ (1 2 (* 9 9) 3 4)
I’d prefer to avoid duplication with the Guile manual.
I pushed a variant of what I had posted as commit
654c0d97c9de4bf25b9facda1278835883555ae0.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-22 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 13:21 Newbie packagers Vincent Legoll
2016-07-21 15:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-21 17:13 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-22 8:30 ` Chris Marusich
2016-07-23 10:21 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-23 10:36 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-21 15:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-21 17:19 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-21 18:04 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-22 7:13 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-22 12:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-22 12:43 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-22 12:41 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-22 12:46 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-22 14:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-22 20:01 ` Vincent Legoll
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