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Re: scheme-describe-symbol


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.  ;-)

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