Re: pushed to master: extensibility to (ice-9 session)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue 27 Jan 2009 21:30, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Looks OK to me. (Too bad [(ice-9 session)] isn't documented BTW.) Do
>> you have example use cases?
>
> From (texinfo reflection):
>
> (cond
>  ((defined? 'add-value-help-handler!)
>   (define (stexi-help-handler name value)
>     (stexi->plain-text (object-stexi-documentation value name #:force #t)))
>   (define (module-help-handler name)
>     (and (list? name)
>          (and-map symbol? name)
>          (stexi->plain-text (module-stexi-documentation name))))
>
>   (add-value-help-handler! stexi-help-handler)
>   (add-name-help-handler! module-help-handler)))

That's really nice!

I think we should aim for the integration of SSAX and STexi in Guile
2.0.  The latter would allow us to do nice things regarding with
automatically extracted documentation.

Thanks,
Ludo'.