Re: Patch: New section "Invoking Guile" for chapter "Programming in Scheme"

[David Pirotte]

Le Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:00:16 +0200,
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the revisions.
> ..

Hello Mark,
Andy,

While you are at the manual, may I point to some suggestion I made about the
structure and contents of the indexes which still is, IMHO, valid today. 
[wanted to
actually really point the email in guile-devel archive but but it didn't let me 
parse
before october 2009 ...]

I didn't and still don't have [yet] the skill to fluently and bug freely 
manipulate
large doc written in texinfo, otherwise I would have done it.

Cheers,
David

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;;; here below, the 'most appropriate' email from the thread, I think
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From: "Neil Jerram" <address@hidden>
To: "David Séverin" <address@hidden>
Cc: guile-devel <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Plan for 2.0
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:47:00 +0000

2009/1/4 Neil Jerram <address@hidden>:
> 2009/1/4 David Séverin <address@hidden>:  
>> Hi Guilers,
>>
>> It might be a small thing [and of course not a priority at all], but I'd 
>> love to
>> see a small evolution of the manual index structure in order to separate 
>> scheme
>> procedures from others, scheme variables from others...:
>>
>>    * Concept Index
>>    * Scheme Prodedure Index    * C Procedure Index
>>    * Scheme Variable Index             * C Variable Index
>>    * Scheme Type Index                 * C Type Index
>>    * R5RS Index
>>
>> Being a scheme 'only' programmer, I'd love not to have to scroll through
>> gh_* and scm_* ... when I am looking for something in an index.  
>
> Thanks for this idea!
>
> I'm not persuaded by the procedure/variable/type separation  

I'm sorry, that's complete nonsense, as we already have the
procedure/variable/type separation.

So in fact now I completely agree with what you've suggested.

Regards,
        Neil