Re: Module system documentation

[Marius Vollmer]

Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:

> > That would be extremely helpful.  i.e. how do I create a module from C
> > and then place symbols into it, etc.
> 
> If anyone with module system wisdom could make a summary of what is
> worth to know, I would most happily extend it and add it to the GRM,
> but I'm too clueless to do it myself.

>From the top of my head:

- at any one time, there is a `current' module (but see below).

- new bindings made with scm_make_gsubr or scm_sysintern are placed
  into this module.

- you can make a module current with a call to scm_set_current_module.

- scm_set_current_module returns the previously current module, which
  you should use to reset the current module eventually.

- you can make a new module with scm_make_module.  The name is a
  regular SCM list of symbols.  When there already is a module with
  the given name, it is returned, however scm_make_module will not
  load a modules definition from disk.

- scm_resolve_module will load a module from disk