also, a commercial company backs clojure's development. who backs guile's?
people can't get past the syntax.
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@rin the two images in the previous toot were fine, this one’s stretched.
@AbbieNormal i don’t think i’ve ever used a scheme interpreter where the experience was a lot better. several common lisp runtimes do pretty good here, but i don’t think i’ve seen a good scheme one.
@AbbieNormal ,apropos help
points to (ice-9 session)
, and that defines the (help)
function. i don’t know where it is on your system, but it should be somewhere like /usr/share/guile/3.0/ice-9/session.scm
@AbbieNormal i don’t know. it doesn’t look as if (help)
is documented in the manual at all. it’s certainly not at https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Procedure-Index.html#Procedure-Index_fn_letter-H
@AbbieNormal markdown didn’t render properly there.
@AbbieNormal also, the commands in the “Help commands” section of the manual are the ones that start with a comma, like ,statistics or ,compile.
@AbbieNormal i didn’t look at the manual, but the difference between (help cons)
and (help “cons”)is documented in the output of
(help): scheme@(guile-user)> (help) Usage: (help NAME) gives documentation about objects named NAME (a symbol) (help REGEXP) ditto for objects with names matching REGEXP (a string) (help 'NAME) gives documentation for NAME, even if it is not an object (help ,EXPR) gives documentation for object returned by EXPR (help (my module)) gives module commentary for
(my module)’
(help) gives this text
@lain something’s not resizing properly.