elisp @@ macro

[bpt/guile.git] / doc / ref / scheme-ideas.texi

diff --git a/doc/ref/scheme-ideas.texi b/doc/ref/scheme-ideas.texi
index 99c07b9..15cf664 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ref/scheme-ideas.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/scheme-ideas.texi
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 @c -*-texinfo-*-
 @c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C)  1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
+@c Copyright (C)  1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012
 @c   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
 
@@ -476,6 +476,11 @@ The corresponding forms of the alternative @code{define} syntax are:
 @noindent
 For details on how these forms work, see @xref{Lambda}.
 
+Prior to Guile 2.0, Guile provided an extension to @code{define} syntax
+that allowed you to nest the previous extension up to an arbitrary
+depth. These are no longer provided by default, and instead have been
+moved to @ref{Curried Definitions}
+
 (It could be argued that the alternative @code{define} forms are rather
 confusing, especially for newcomers to the Scheme language, as they hide
 both the role of @code{lambda} and the fact that procedures are values
@@ -964,11 +969,11 @@ same as a procedure which returns its last argument, because the
 evaluation of a procedure invocation expression does not guarantee to
 evaluate the arguments in order.
 
-@code{if} and @code{cond} (@pxref{if cond case}) provide conditional
+@code{if} and @code{cond} (@pxref{Conditionals}) provide conditional
 evaluation of argument expressions depending on whether one or more
 conditions evaluate to ``true'' or ``false''.
 
-@code{case} (@pxref{if cond case}) provides conditional evaluation of
+@code{case} (@pxref{Conditionals}) provides conditional evaluation of
 argument expressions depending on whether a variable has one of a
 specified group of values.