From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@stekt.oulu.fi>
To: guile-emacs@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: scheme-describe-symbol
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87em7pj5ma.fsf@PC486.Niemitalo.LAN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31z3p6zk5.fsf@kei.cwru.edu>
Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:
> (define + -)
> (+ 1 2)
>
> In this case, we may want to find the documentation of `-' instead of
> that of `+'.
Must there still be a way to get the documentation of `+'?
If not, we could use `procedure-name':
guile> (define + -)
guile> (procedure-name +)
-
> We could combine these two functions into one command, though.
I believe that would be easier for users.
I have an incomplete `scheme-describe-variable'. I'll start
hacking it again.
> ----------------------------------------
> `+' is a method.
No, it's a generic function. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-29 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-29 1:25 scheme-describe-symbol Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2000-04-29 2:12 ` scheme-describe-symbol Keisuke Nishida
2000-04-29 11:37 ` scheme-describe-symbol Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2000-04-29 12:42 ` scheme-describe-symbol Keisuke Nishida
2000-04-29 11:37 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo [this message]
2000-04-29 12:22 ` scheme-describe-symbol Keisuke Nishida
2000-04-30 6:57 ` scheme-describe-symbol Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2000-05-01 18:16 ` scheme-describe-symbol Keisuke Nishida
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