1 2006-02-13 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
3 * api-utility.texi (Object Properties): Removed confusing
4 paragraph about 'name' property.
6 2006-02-04 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
8 * api-control.texi (Throw Handlers): New node.
9 (Throw): Moved to after the Lazy Catch node.
10 (Catch): Enhance to cover the optional pre-unwind handler, and new
11 APIs scm_c_catch, scm_catch_with_pre_unwind_handler.
12 (Lazy Catch): Describe relationship to with-throw-handler.
13 Document that the handler may return, and what happens if it does.
14 (Throw): Mention that a throw can be handled by a throw handler as
17 2006-02-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
19 * api-options.texi (Build Config): pxref libtool on libguileinterface
21 * intro.texi (Writing Guile Extensions), libguile-extensions.texi (A
22 Sample Guile Extension): pxref libtool manual.
24 * api-modules.texi (Compiled Code Installation): New section.
26 * posix.texi (Network Address Conversion, Network Databases)
27 (Network Sockets and Communication, Internet Socket Examples): Misc
30 2006-01-29 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
32 * api-scheduling.texi: Removed "Futures" node.
34 Renamed the "frames" that are related to dynamic-wind to "dynamic
35 contexts. Renamed all functions from scm_frame_ to scm_dynwind_.
36 Updated documentation.
38 2005-12-19 Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
40 * api-data.texi (Operations Related to Symbols):
41 Documented `scm_take_locale_symbol ()'.
43 2005-12-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
45 * api-evaluation.texi (Fly Evaluation): Add scm_call_4, suggested by
48 * misc-modules.texi (Streams): In stream->list&length and
49 stream->reversed-list&length, make the two values clearer.
51 2005-12-14 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
53 * api-options.texi (Evaluator trap options): Trap calls now always
54 use a debug object rather than a continuation.
55 (Debugger options, Examples of option use): Update help text for
56 'cheap option (which is now obsolete).
58 * api-evaluation.texi (Loading): Document custom reader.
60 2005-12-06 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
62 * api-init.texi, api-scheduling.texi, libguile-concepts.texi:
63 Removed scm_leave_guile, scm_enter_guile and all references to
64 them since they are no longer in the API.
68 * api-control.texi (if cond case): Describe SRFI 61 cond.
70 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-61): New section.
71 (SRFI Support): Add SRFI-61 to menu.
73 2005-11-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
75 * api-compound.texi (Retrieving Alist Entries): Revise for clarity and
78 2005-11-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
80 From Ludovic Courtès, partial rework by me:
81 * doc/ref/api-modules.texi (Creating Guile Modules): In define-module,
82 describe #:re-export, #:export-syntax, #:re-export-syntax, #:replace
83 and #:duplicates. Add re-export.
85 2005-11-01 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
87 * posix.texi (Time): In strftime, note systems vary for %Z.
89 2005-10-29 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
91 * posix.texi (Network Socket Address): Add scm_make_socket_address,
92 scm_c_make_socket_address, scm_from_sockaddr, scm_to_sockaddr. This
93 change by Ludovic Courtès and revised a bit by me.
95 2005-10-27 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
97 * posix.texi (Network Address Conversion): Move INADDR_ANY to here.
98 (Network Socket Address): New section, move sockaddr bits to here, add
99 new make-socket-address.
100 (Network Sockets and Communication): In connect, bind, and sendto, now
101 take socket address object. In bind, leave INADDR constants for
102 "Network Address Conversion" node. In those plus accept, getsockname,
103 getpeername, reword a bit for clarity.
105 2005-10-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
107 * posix.texi (Network Sockets and Communication): Combine and revise
108 getsockopt and setsockopt. Add OPTNAME constants, including new
109 IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP.
111 * posix.texi (Time): Revise strftime for clarity, cross reference man
112 3 strftime (suggested by Greg Troxel), note locale character set when
113 setlocale has been called.
115 2005-10-15 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
117 * api-debug.texi (Source Properties): Add text describing/advising
118 limited use of source properties.
120 * api-debug.texi (Source Properties): Documentation of source
121 property procedures moved here from ...
123 * api-procedures.texi (Procedure Properties): ... where it didn't
126 2005-10-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
128 * api-data.texi (Regexp Functions): Notes on zero bytes and locale
131 * misc-modules.texi (Formatted Output): Show modifiers like ~:d
134 2005-08-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
136 * api-compound.texi (List Modification): In filter, return may share a
137 tail with the input, as per docstring. In filter!, fix chopped off
138 note of modifying input.
140 * api-control.texi (Error Reporting): In strerror, note message is in
141 locale language and charset.
143 2005-07-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
145 * api-data.texi (String Selection): In string-pad, don't say anything
146 about sharing strings, decided against doing that.
147 (Miscellaneous String Operations): Ditto in string-filter and
150 * api-data.texi (String Selection): Merge descriptions of string-trim,
151 string-trim-right and string-trim-both for brevity.
153 2005-06-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
155 * api-options.texi (Debugger options): Cross reference new Tail Calls
156 node rather than R5RS on tail recursion.
158 2005-06-23 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
160 * guile.texi, libguile-concepts.texi, libguile-extensions.texi,
161 libguile-linking.texi, libguile-smobs.texi: Spelling errors reported
164 * api-compound.texi (Pairs, List Syntax): Cross reference Expression
166 * api-control.texi (Lazy Catch): Cross ref for with-fluids.
167 * libguile-linking.texi (A Sample Guile Main Program): Cross reference
168 automake manual for aclocal.
169 * libguile-program.texi (Extending Dia): URL for Dia home page.
170 (Dia Primitives): Cross ref for scm_c_define_gsubr.
172 2005-06-12 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
174 * gh.texi: More stuff about transitioning away from GH.
176 2005-06-11 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
178 * api-data.texi (Miscellaneous String Operations): In string-filter
179 and string-delete, note result may share with input string (as allowed
182 2005-06-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
184 * api-compound.texi (Array Procedures): In array-in-bounds?,
185 correction to example result.
187 * api-init.texi (Initialization), api-scheduling.texi (Blocking):
188 {} groups around "void*" C return types.
190 2005-05-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
192 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Selectors): In drop-right, note always a
193 new list. In take-right, note result shares common tail. Per spec.
195 2005-05-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
197 * api-data.texi (String Constructors): Clarify string, list->string
198 and reverse-list->string a bit.
200 2005-04-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
202 * api-io.texi (Default Ports): Describe buffering on standard ports.
204 2005-04-23 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
206 * api-data.texi (Regexp Functions): Add list-matches and fold-matches.
208 * data-rep.texi (Subrs): Note that subr must not modify its rest list.
210 2005-04-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
212 * api-data.texi (Regexp Functions): Clarity flags parameter.
214 * misc-modules.texi, guile.texi (Rx Regexps): Remove this section, Rx
215 is not in the core and we don't want to confuse anyone with it and the
216 builtin posix regexps.
218 2005-04-04 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
220 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Set Operations): use @cross iso. @times.
222 * guile.texi: add @cross for @tex
224 2005-04-02 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
226 * guile.texi (@times): New macro.
228 * repl-modules.texi (Readline Support): Cross ref readline manual.
229 (Loading Readline Support): Add GUILE_HISTORY and .inputrc Guile
232 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Association Lists): In alist-cons, clarify
233 a bit and cross reference core acons.
235 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Set Operations): Revise and expand.
236 (SRFI-1 Deleting): In delete, cross reference lset-difference.
238 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-19): Note Gregorian leap year rules
239 incorrectly extended back prior to 1582.
241 2005-03-29 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
243 * api-compound.texi: Fixed some typos and added some docs. Talk
244 about concrete and abstract hash tables.
246 2005-03-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
248 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-55): New section.
249 (SRFI-60): New section.
251 2005-03-01 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
253 * api-compound.texi (Shared Arrays): New section. Rewrite
254 make-shared-array for clarity, adding examples.
256 * libguile-concepts.texi (Control Flow): Cross reference Tail Calls.
258 2005-02-17 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
260 * api-data.texi (Reals and Rationals): Use tex for sqrt2 and pi.
261 (Complex Numbers): Add polar form read syntax.
263 2005-02-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
265 * posix.texi (File System): In tmpnam, clarify security and use of
266 O_EXCL. In mkstemp!, in fact posix doesn't specify permissions.
268 * scheme-ideas.texi (Tail Calls): New section.
270 2005-02-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
272 * api-data.texi (String Selection): In string-pad and
273 string-pad-right, clarify which end the padding goes on, and merge
276 * api-data.texi (Integer Operations): In gcd and lcm, show args.
277 (Arithmetic): In truncate, add missing arg.
279 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Fold and Map): Rewrite fold, pair-fold and
282 2005-02-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
284 * posix.texi (File System): In mkstemp!, in fact posix doesn't specify
285 the permissions mode. Add an example setting 666 less umask.
287 2005-02-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
289 * api-io.texi (File Ports): In port-filename, cannot use after close.
291 * posix.texi (Time): In mktime, clarify fields of sbd-time used, and
292 the handling of tm:isdst.
294 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-0): Add srfi-4, srfi-13 and srfi-14 now in
297 2005-01-29 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
299 * posix.texi (Signals): In sigaction, add SA_NOCLDSTOP, make it
300 clearer SA_RESTART is a variable.
302 2005-01-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
304 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Predicates): Clarify proper-list?,
305 circular-list? and dotted-list?, note any object passes exactly one of
308 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-19 Time/Date conversions): In default
309 tz-offset, note restrictions on a 32-bit system.
311 2005-01-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
313 * api-i18n.texi (Internationalization): Expand and revise a bit for
316 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Searching): In member, note `=' called arg
318 (SRFI-1 Set Operations): Remove lset-adjoin!, doesn't exist in the
319 code or the srfi spec.
321 2005-01-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
323 * posix.texi (Ports and File Descriptors): In flock, for LOCK_NB note
324 logior for LOCK_NB and EWOULDBLOCK error, and note flock doesn't work
327 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Searching): In list-index, note 0 based
328 index and #f for not found.
330 2005-01-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
332 * api-data.texi (Bitwise Operations): In logtest and logbit?, describe
333 operations in words, not just equivalent expressions. In
334 integer-expt, clarify a bit and note negative k allowed and 0^0==1.
336 * api-data.texi (Random): In random:solid-sphere!, there is no return
339 * api-evaluation.texi (Loading): In %load-hook, need to use set!, and
342 2005-01-14 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
344 * scheme-scripts.texi: Describe new 1.4 compatability behavior of
347 2005-01-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
349 * api-data.texi (Mapping Folding and Unfolding): In
350 string-for-each-index, make it clear iteration is over indices.
352 * posix.texi (User Information): Note cuserid gone from POSIX.
353 Prompted by Roland Besserer.
355 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-39): New section.
357 2005-01-10 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
359 * srfi-modules.texi: Various index entries.
360 (SRFI-19 Introduction): Note MJD basis is 2400000.5.
361 (SRFI-19 Date): In date-second, clarify leap second usage. In
362 date-year, note negatives for B.C. and no zero. In current-date,
363 don't let it read like it's just UTC which is returned.
365 2005-01-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
367 * api-modules.texi (Creating Guile Modules): Expand define-modules
368 #:autoload, clarify that it's a list of symbols.
370 * api-modules.texi (Included Guile Modules): Add expect, format, ftw,
371 getop-long, history, popen, pretty-print, q, readline, receive, regex,
372 streams, syncase, srfi-16, srfi-19 and srfi-31. Remove ice-9 jacal,
375 * posix.texi (File System): In mkstemp!, note 0600 creation mode.
377 2005-01-06 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
379 * api-compound.texi: Finished(?) the new array API docs.
381 2005-01-02 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
383 * posix.texi (Pipes): Expand and clarify a bit. Describe port
384 inheritance. Caution against waitpid WAIT_ANY.
386 2004-12-29 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
388 * api-compound.texi (Arrays): Updated for the new 'typed' approach
391 2004-12-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
393 * api-data.texi (String Predicates): For string-any and string-every,
394 last chars are now tail calls per srfi, and reinstate char_pred can be
395 character or character set (somehow lost in cut and paste).
397 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Searching): In any and every, revise for
398 clarity, note last call in each is a tail call.
400 2004-12-27 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
402 * api-compound.texi (Vectors, Bit Vectors, Uniform Numeric
403 Vectors): Updated for the distinction between read-only and write
404 access to storage locations.
406 2004-12-22 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
408 * api-compound.texi (Arrays): Reorganized and 'modernized'.
410 2004-12-20 Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>
412 * expect.texi (Expect): Removed backslash escapes of regexp
413 operators ( and ) in code example for expect-strings.
415 2004-12-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
417 * api-data.texi (Regexp Functions): Revise regex-substitute and
418 regex-substitute/global for clarity, add some examples.
420 * api-procedures.texi (lambda* Reference): Revise for clarity, note
421 how #:rest works with #:key, note previous bindings available to
424 2004-12-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
426 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Length Append etc): In concatenate, note
427 equivalence to "apply append".
429 2004-11-09 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
431 * api-compound.texi (Generalized Vectors): New.
432 (Bit Vectors): More docs.
433 (Uniform Vectors): Call them Uniform numeric vectors.
435 2004-10-29 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
437 * api-compound.texi (Uniform Vectors): Added c32 and c64 docs.
439 2004-10-27 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
441 * srfi-modules.texi, api-compound.texi: Moved SRFI-4 docs into
442 main part. Moved bit vectors out of array section to make them
445 2004-10-19 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
447 * api-smobs.texi (smob mark function): List admissible functions
450 2004-10-04 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
452 * api-data.texi: Removed primitive keyword section, updated
455 * api-undocumented.texi: Moved keyword dash-symbol docs here.
457 2004-09-26 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
459 * api-data.texi (Conversion to/from C): Braces {} around char* return.
460 * api-evaluation.texi (Block Comments): More cindex entries.
462 * guile.texi, misc-modules.texi (Streams): New section.
464 2004-09-25 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
466 * libguile-smobs.texi, api-smobs.texi: More words abot what a free
467 function is allowed to do.
469 2004-09-24 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
471 * libguile-smobs.texi: Bugfix in example code, use SCM_NEWSMOB
472 correctly. Use scm_assert_smob_type instead of SCM_ASSERT
475 2004-09-23 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
477 * api-i18n.texi: New file.
478 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Added it.
479 * guile.texi: Include it.
481 2004-09-16 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
483 * api-utility.texi (Equality): Revise for clarity.
485 2004-09-08 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
487 * api-data.texi (integer-expt): Updated from docstring.
489 * Makefile.am (CLEANFILES, MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Moved
490 autoconf-macros.texi to MAINTAINERCLEANFILES. It is in the
491 tarball and we shouldn't clean it, then.
493 2004-09-07 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
495 * api-procedures.texi (let-keywords Reference): Typo, should be
496 let-keywords* @defunx.
498 * api-scheduling.texi (Parallel Forms): In parallel, letpar, par-map,
499 n-par-map and n-for-each-par-map, describe each form as being in its
500 own thread, not a new thread, since for instance the calling thread is
501 used when only one form. Plus typo in n-for-each-par-map example
502 equivalent for-each + n-par-map.
504 * posix.texi (Locales): Use @var for category arg.
506 * posix.texi (System Identification): Remove software-type, it doesn't
507 exist in the guile core.
509 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-10): Revise and expand.
511 2004-09-02 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
513 * misc-modules.texi (Formatted Output): Excess arguments are ignored.
514 In ~*, correction N parameter cannot be negative. In ~t, note
517 2004-08-29 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
519 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-2): Note empty body is #t.
521 2004-08-25 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
523 * api-data.texi, srfi-modules.texi: Moved docs for SRFI-14 into
524 main API chapter. Updated docstrings from libguile/.
526 2004-08-25 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
528 * api-data.texi, srfi-modules.texi: Moved docs for SRFI-14 into
529 main API chapter. Updated docstrings from libguile/.
531 2004-08-24 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
533 Ran a (docstring-process-module "(guile)") and moved entries from
534 new-docstrings.texi to their appropriate place.
536 * api-undocumented.texi: New file.
538 2004-08-21 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
540 From Richard Todd, Thanks!
542 * scheme-scripts.texi (Invoking Guile): documented new '-L'
545 2004-08-20 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
547 * gh.texi: Updated transition section with new recommended things.
549 2004-08-19 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
551 * api-data.texi (Strings): Document copy-on-write behavior and
552 mutation-sharing substrings.
553 (Symbols): Document scm_from_locale_symbol and
554 scm_from_locale_symboln.
556 2004-08-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
558 * posix.texi (Network Sockets and Communication): Add SOCK_RDM and
561 * posix.texi (Internet Socket Examples): Correction to socket calls,
562 should be PF_INET not AF_INET (though generally the two are the same
565 2004-08-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
567 * api-scheduling.texi (Mutexes): New datatype-centric section, adding
568 fair mutexes and collecting up material from ...
569 (Low level thread primitives, Higher level thread procedures, C level
570 thread interface): ... these nodes.
572 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-13 Predicates): Add string-any and
573 string-every support for char and charset predicates.
575 2004-08-11 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
577 * api-data.texi (scm_c_round, scm_c_truncate): Docs for'em.
579 2004-08-10 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
581 * api-control.texi: Updated example to use scm_to_locale_string
582 instead of roll-your-own scm_to_string. Also showcase
585 * api-data.texi: Docs for scm_is_string, scm_to_locale_string*,
586 and scm_from_locale_string*.
588 * api-memory.texi: Docs for scm_frame_free.
590 2004-08-09 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
592 * api-io.texi (File Ports): In open-file, describe the "b" binary flag.
594 * slib.texi (SLIB): Add notes on delete-file, provided? and open-file
595 overridden by ice-9 slib module.
597 2004-08-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
599 * api-scheduling.texi (Arbiters): Tweak wording for clarity, note any
600 thread can unlock not just the one which locked.
602 * posix.texi (Conventions): Describe system-error args, use @defun for
603 system-error-errno instead of just words.
605 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-13 Predicates): Tweak wording for clarity.
606 For string-every, note return is #t when no characters. For
607 string-any and string-every, note last pred call is not currently a
608 tail call, contrary to SRFI-13 spec.
610 2004-08-03 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
612 * api-data.texi: Added scm_is_real, scm_is_rational,
613 scm_to_double, scm_from_double, numerator, and denominator. Added
614 scm_is_complex, scm_is_number, scm_c_make_rectangular,
615 scm_c_make_polar, scm_c_real_part, scm_c_imag_part,
616 scm_c_magnitude, and scm_c_angle.
618 2004-08-02 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
620 * gh.texi: Replaced references to scm_num2* with scm_to_* and
621 references to scm_*2num with scm_from_*.
623 Renamed many file to make the structure of the manual more evident
624 in the names. Changed all references.
626 * scheme-binding.texi: Renamed to api-binding.texi.
627 * scheme-compound.texi: Renamed to api-compound.texi.
628 * scheme-control.texi: Renamed to api-control.texi.
629 * scheme-data.texi: Renamed to api-data.texi.
630 * scheme-debug.texi: Renamed to api-debug.texi.
631 * deprecated.texi: Renamed to api-deprecated.texi.
632 * scheme-evaluation.texi: Renamed to api-evaluation.texi.
633 * ref-init.texi: Renamed to api-init.texi.
634 * scheme-io.texi: Renamed to api-io.texi.
635 * scheme-memory.texi: Renamed to api-memory.texi.
636 * scheme-modules.texi: Renamed to api-modules.texi.
637 * scheme-options.texi: Renamed to api-options.texi.
638 * scm.texi: Renamed to api-overview.texi.
639 * scheme-procedures.texi: Renamed to api-procedures.texi.
640 * scheme-scheduling.texi: Renamed to api-scheduling.texi.
641 * scheme-scm.texi: Renamed to api-scm.texi.
642 * scheme-smobs.texi: Renamed to api-smobs.texi.
643 * scheme-snarf.texi: Renamed to api-snarf.texi.
644 * scheme-translation.texi: Renamed to api-translation.texi.
645 * scheme-utility.texi: Renamed to api-utility.texi.
646 * debugging.texi: Renamed to scheme-debugging.texi.
647 * scripts.texi: Renamed to scheme-scripts.texi.
648 * program.texi: Renamed to libguile-program.texi.
650 * api-deprecated.texi: Removed.
651 * intro.texi (Discouraged and Deprecated): General information
652 about deprecation, etc.
654 2004-07-30 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
656 * misc-modules.texi (Formatted Output): Changed @w to @w{} in
657 itemize. The former doesn't work for some reason...
659 2004-07-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
661 * misc-modules.texi (Formatted Output): Rewrite, describing escapes
662 and parameters in detail.
663 * guile.texi (@le, @ge): New macros for ifnottex.
665 2004-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
667 * guile.texi (@nicode): Use @alias instead of @macro, for correct
668 handling of backslashes.
670 * scheme-control.texi (Frames): Add @vindex for SCM_F_WIND_EXPLICITLY.
672 * scheme-data.texi (String Syntax): Add all backslash forms accepted.
673 (Regexp Functions): Use @defvar for regexp/icase etc, to emphasise
674 that they're variables not symbols etc.
676 * scheme-smobs.texi (Smobs): In SCM_SMOB_OBJECT_LOC,
677 SCM_SMOB_OBJECT_2_LOC, SCM_SMOB_OBJECT_3_LOC, use {} to avoid "*"
678 getting into the index as part of the macro name.
680 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-0): Revise for clarity, drop BNF in favour
681 of plain description, emphasise this is just for portable programs.
683 2004-07-10 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
685 * scheme-data.texi (Integers): Talk more about inexact and exact
688 2004-07-10 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
690 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-0): Add srfi-6 to the identifiers provided
693 2004-07-07 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
695 * scheme-data.texi (Integers): Added docs for the new scm_is_,
696 scm_to_ and scm_from_ functions for integers.
698 * data-rep.texi (How Guile does it): Mark as being in limbo. All
699 the real documentation will be in the nodes "Programming in C" and
701 (Boolean Data): Just refer to node "Booleans".
703 * gh.texi: Replace references to SCM_NFALSEP, etc with
706 * scheme-data.texi (Booleans): Flag all function-like definitions
709 2004-07-06 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
711 * scheme-data.texi: Remove non-R5RS stuff from the 'rn' index.
713 * scheme-utility.texi: Added scm_is_eq, scm_eq_p, scm_eqv_p, and
716 2004-07-05 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
718 * scheme-data.texi (Booleans): Added reference entries for
719 scm_is_true, scm_is_false, scm_is_bool, scm_from_bool, and
722 2004-06-28 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
724 * Makefile.am: Removed home-grown code for HTML generation.
725 Automake does it for us now.
727 * guile.texi, scheme-scm.texi: Do not use TeXinfo markup in
728 section or node names.
730 2004-06-20 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
732 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-31): add documentation for srfi-31.
734 2004-05-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
736 * Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Remove guile.cps guile.fns guile.rns
737 guile.tps guile.vrs guile.tmp, cleaned by automake these days.
739 2004-05-06 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
741 * scheme-smobs.texi: Updated for new SCM_SMOB_* macros.
743 * preface.texi: Moved around the sections so that the manual
744 overview comes first.
746 * libguile-smobs.texi: Updated for the new role of scm_t_bits.
748 2004-04-21 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
750 * Big reorganization of the whole manual to give it a simpler
753 2004-03-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
755 * slib.texi (SLIB): Amend `require' cross reference node name, is
756 called "Require" in slib 3a1.
758 2004-03-23 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
760 * scheme-data.texi (Reals and Rationals): Typo in `rationalize'.
762 2004-03-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
764 * posix.texi (Processes): Add setgroups.
766 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-26): New section.
768 2004-02-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
770 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Expression Syntax): Add @findex entries for
771 quote and quasiquote no longer using @deffn.
773 2004-02-20 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
775 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Expression Syntax): Turned syntax
776 description into a table, @deffn is not really up to the task.
778 2004-02-18 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
780 * guile.texi: Replaced list of authors with "The Guile
783 * preface.texi (Contributors to the Manual): New section.
785 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Expression Syntax): Use an empty name
786 for the function call syntax definition. Otherwise, TeX complains
787 about unbalanced parenthesis.
789 2004-02-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
791 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Expression Syntax): Fill section with
792 function calling etc, and quote and quasiquote.
794 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-9): Revise for detail and clarity. Don't
795 use ":foo" for example type name, since that depends on the keyword
798 2004-02-15 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@chunk.mit.edu>
800 * scheme-compound.texi (Hash Table Reference): Wrote a new entry
801 for hash-for-each-handle.
803 2004-02-16 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
805 * scheme-compound.texi (Sloppy Alist Functions): Amend error messages
806 shown to match current guile output.
808 2004-02-15 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@chunk.mit.edu>
810 * scheme-compound.texi (Hash Table Reference): Renamed hash-map
813 2004-02-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
815 * scheme-compound.texi (Hash Table Reference): In scm_hash_ref etc,
816 remove note that dflt must be given, it can be SCM_UNSPECIFIED.
818 * scheme-control.texi (while do): Expand and clarify `do', in
819 particular note iteration binds fresh locations, rather than values
822 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-4): Revise for clarity, give each function
823 explicitly rather than showing TAG so Emacs info-look can find them,
824 merge "SRFI-4 - Read Syntax" and "SRFI-4 - Procedures" into just one
827 2004-02-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
829 * scheme-compound.texi (Conventional Arrays): Revise for clarity.
830 In array-equal?, show multiple arguments allowed.
831 (Uniform Arrays): Remove duplicate array?.
832 * guile.texi (cross): New macro.
834 * scheme-compound.texi (Uniform Arrays): Note 1/3 prototype for
835 doubles is now an exact fraction.
837 * slib.texi (SLIB): Index entry for replacement `system'.
839 2004-01-28 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@chunk.mit.edu>
841 * scheme-compound.texi (Uniform Arrays): Added a FIXME warning
842 that the 1/3 prototype no longer works.
844 2004-01-23 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
846 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Added fdl.texi.
848 2004-01-21 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
850 Added copyright notices to all TeXinfo files.
853 * guile.texi: Include it as an appendix.
854 * preface.texi: State that the manual is FDL.
856 2004-01-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
858 * preface.texi (Guile License): Note readline is GPL and manual has
859 its own copying terms. Describe briefly what the licenses mean in
862 * scheme-scheduling.texi (Higher level thread procedures): In monitor,
863 don't let "newly created" suggest a mutex created on every evaluation.
864 Note what "monitor" means.
866 * slib.texi (SLIB): Note `system' redefined by (ice-9 slib). Tweak
869 2004-01-11 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
871 * misc-modules.texi (Queues): New chapter.
872 * guile.texi (Top): Add it.
874 2004-01-09 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
876 * scheme-compound.texi (Bit Vectors): Revise for clarity, following
877 report by Rouben Rostamian. Remove #b() example, that syntax is not
880 2004-01-07 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
882 * scheme-control.texi, scheme-io.tex, scheme-scheduling.texi:
883 Adapt to new 'frame' names. Document scm_c_with_fluid,
884 scm_c_with_fluids, and scm_frame_fluid.
886 2004-01-06 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
888 * scheme-control.texi: Document scm_on_unwind_with_scm and
889 scm_on_rewind_with_scm.
891 2004-01-05 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
893 * scheme-scheduling.texi: Document scm_with_[un]blocked_asyncs.
895 * scheme-io.texi: Document scm_with_current_<foo>_port.
897 2004-01-03 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
899 * scheme-control.texi: Document the frames stuff and other random
902 2004-01-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
904 * scheme-scheduling.texi (Threads): Note Guile uses POSIX threads, for
905 concurrency and preemption.
906 (C level thread interface): Note periodic libguile call required for C
907 code in threads, add commented out reminders for SCM_TICK and
908 guile-mode, for when those features are ready.
910 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Filtering and Partitioning): For partition
911 and partition!, emphasise the multi-value return, note partition may
912 share a tail with the given list.
914 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Searching, SRFI-1 Deleting, SRFI-1
915 Association Lists): Note how member, delete, delete! and assoc extend
916 the corresponding core functions.
918 2003-11-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
920 * tools.texi (Macros guile-snarf recognizes): Correction to GOOPS
923 2003-11-19 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
925 * scheme-data.texi: Include exact rationals.
927 From Stephen Compall. Thanks!
929 * intro.texi (What is Guile?): Add @acronym for POSIX, R5RS, GUI,
930 and HTTP. Conclude linking libguile. Say what one can find *for*.
932 * preface.texi (Manual Conventions): Double-quote some statements
933 formerly single-quoted. Remove some redundant quotes around code.
934 Clarify meaning of `iff' further for those that didn't get it the
935 first time 'round (like me). Make graphical indicators samples,
936 not code. Put results of evaluation on the same line as @result
937 symbols. Use @print example as example of total usage, and remind
938 readers not to forget the difference.
940 2003-11-17 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
942 * scheme-modules.texi: Document '@' and '@@'.
944 * scripts.texi: Mention that "-e (@ ...)" also works.
946 2003-11-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
948 * scheme-data.texi (Random): Add *random-state* variable, put note at
949 the top of the node about it being the default, rather than just in
950 the description of random.
952 2003-11-13 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
954 * preface.texi (Manual Layout): Wrap POSIX, API, and SLIB in
955 @acronym. Change from paragraph format (somewhat clumsy-looking
956 on paper, at least) to @table format, with headers @strong. Made
957 example modules complete sentences. From Stephen Compall, thanks!
959 2003-11-09 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
961 * misc-modules.texi (Pretty Printing): Add new keyword options, break
962 example to avoid long line.
964 * scheme-data.texi (Random): In random, use @code for *random-state*.
965 Reported by Stephen Compall.
967 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Filtering and Partitioning): Move filter
969 * scheme-compound.texi (List Modification): ... to here, now that
970 they're implemented in the core.
972 2003-11-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
974 * misc-modules.texi (File Tree Walk): New chapter.
975 * guile.texi: Add it.
977 2003-10-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
979 * gh.texi (Calling Scheme procedures from C, scm transition summary):
980 Refer to scm_list_n, not the old name scm_listify.
981 (scm transition summary): For gh_apply, recommend scm_apply_0, which
984 * gh.texi (Defining new Scheme procedures in C): Don't use
985 @strong{Note:}, latest makeinfo will complain it looks like a cross
988 * posix.texi (Time): Correction to strftime glibc cross reference
989 node, now "Formatting Calendar Time".
991 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Searching): In break, note conflict with
992 binding established by `while'.
994 2003-10-09 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
996 * scheme-compound.texi (Hash Table Reference): Decribe rehashing, note
997 no hashx-remove!, describe make-hash-table size parameter.
999 2003-10-06 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
1001 * scheme-memory.texi: Added a short explanation of the GC and the
1002 conservative stack scanning.
1003 (scm_gc_protect_object, scm_gc_unprotect_object,
1004 scm_permanent_object): New.
1006 * data-rep.texi, scheme-memory.texi (scm_remember_upto_here_1,
1007 scm_remember_upto_here_2): Moved from data-rep.texi to
1010 2003-10-02 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1012 * scheme-io.texi (String Ports): In call-with-output-string, note proc
1013 should not close the port. In get-output-string, note string must be
1014 gotten before closing the port.
1016 2003-09-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1018 * posix.texi (File System): In access?, reword a bit, clarify real
1019 versus effective ID handling, cross reference glibc on that, and
1020 recommend against access tests in library functions.
1022 2003-09-13 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1024 * posix.texi (File System): In stat:dev and stat:mode, clarify that
1027 * posix.texi (Network Address Conversion): Under IPv4, describe
1028 numeric representation in Guile, add INADDR_LOOPBACK and
1029 INADDR_BROADCAST, add commented-out INADDR_NONE.
1031 * scheme-compound.texi (Append/Reverse): Merge reverse and reverse!,
1032 describe newtail parameter for reverse!, remove confusing caveat about
1033 head becoming tail for reverse!.
1035 * scheme-io.texi (Reading): In port-column, port-line,
1036 set-port-column! and set-port-line!, port parameter must be given,
1037 there's no default to current input.
1039 * scheme-io.texi (Reading): Add scm_c_read.
1040 (Writing): Add scm_c_write.
1042 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Constructors): Add list-copy.
1044 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-19): Rewrite, adding descriptions of all
1045 functions, and a bit of an introduction.
1047 2003-09-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1049 * scheme-data.texi (Keyword Primitives): Add examples to
1050 make-keyword-from-dash-symbol and keyword-dash-symbol. Add
1053 * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Primitives): In gensym, cross reference
1054 uninterned symbols, use @w{} on " g" prefix to avoid any chance of a
1055 line break obscuring it.
1057 2003-08-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1059 * data-rep.texi (Remembering During Operations): Note
1060 scm_remember_upto_here_1 applies only to C automatic variables.
1062 * guile.texi: Move @contents to usual place after title page, and
1063 after first menu since that looks nice in html.
1065 * posix.texi (Ports and File Descriptors): In pipe PIPE_BUF, use
1066 @defvar, reword a bit for clarity, cross reference glibc.
1068 * posix.texi (Network Sockets and Communication): In socket, use
1069 @defvar for protocol variables, cross reference for getprotobyname,
1070 note it's usually connect and accept that establishes communication.
1072 * posix.texi (Network Sockets and Communication): In socketpair,
1073 clarify the return is a pair with ports in car and cdr, note
1074 connection is full duplex, refer to socket for parameters, refer to
1075 PF_UNIX rather than AF_UNIX.
1077 * scheme-compound.texi (Append/Reverse): Merge append and append!,
1078 shown parameters as lst1 ... lstN, describe list argument for
1079 scm_append and scm_append_x and note that it's unmodified.
1081 * scheme-compound.texi (Hash Table Reference): Add hashx- case
1082 insensitive string example, add cross references to symbol-hash,
1083 string-hash, string-hash-ci, and char-set-hash.
1085 * scheme-control.texi (Multiple Values): In values, show args as "arg1
1086 ... argN". In scm_values, note args is a list and returned object
1087 shares structure with it.
1089 * scheme-control.texi (Catch): Add scm_internal_catch.
1090 (Lazy Catch): Add scm_internal_lazy_catch.
1092 * scheme-data.texi (Arithmetic): Use a table for scheme to C libm
1093 equivalences, add C99 trunc.
1095 * scheme-procedures.texi (Lambda): Note ". rest" list argument is
1096 always newly created.
1098 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Association Lists): In alist-delete and
1099 alist-delete!, note argument order for the equality calls per SRFI-1
1102 2003-08-26 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1104 * scheme-data.texi (Scientific): Add two-argument atan.
1106 * tools.texi (How guile-snarf works): Need @@ for texinfo in example.
1108 2003-08-17 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1110 * scheme-compound.texi (Hash Table Reference): Collect up groups of
1111 functions to avoid duplication. Revise notes on hashx functions and
1112 on vector implementation. In make-hash-table, size is now optional.
1113 Add hash-map and hash-for-each.
1115 2003-08-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1117 * scheme-control.texi (while do): Update `while' for code rewrite, in
1118 particular describe break and continue.
1120 2003-08-09 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1122 * scheme-memory.texi (Memory Blocks): Add index entries for deprecated
1123 scm_must_malloc and friends.
1125 2003-07-29 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1127 * scheme-compound.texi (List Constructors): Remove scm_cons_star,
1128 since it's not very helpful.
1130 * scheme-utility.texi (Property Primitives): In primitive-property-ref,
1131 note parameters to not-found-proc, use hyphens rather than underscores
1132 for that parameter name.
1133 In primitive-property-set!, VAL is the value parameter not CODE.
1135 2003-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1137 * scheme-control.texi (Dynamic Wind): Untabify.
1138 (Multiple Values): Use @result.
1139 Reported by Stephen Compall <s11@member.fsf.org>.
1141 * scheme-control.texi (Continuations): Rewrite with more detail.
1143 * scheme-scheduling.texi (System asyncs): Add index entries for C
1146 * scheme-scheduling.texi (Parallel Forms): New section.
1148 2003-07-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1150 * scheme-compound.texi (List Constructors): In list, use "elem1
1151 ... elemN". Add scm_list_1, scm_list_2, scm_list_3, scm_list_4,
1152 scm_list_5, scm_list_n. Remove scm_list, since it's a no-op.
1153 * guile.texi (nicode): New macro.
1155 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Fly Evaluation): In apply, reword for
1156 clarity, drop the "append" example. Add scm_apply, scm_apply_0,
1157 scm_apply_1, scm_apply_2, scm_apply_3.
1158 Add scm_call_0, scm_call_1, scm_call_2, scm_call_3.
1159 In apply:nconc2last, move down after "apply", reword for clarity, note
1160 correspondence to apply params.
1162 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-0): Add cond-expand index entry.
1163 (SRFI-9): Add define-record-type index entry.
1165 2003-07-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1167 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Constructors): In iota, reword a bit for
1168 clarity and add a couple of examples.
1170 2003-07-10 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1172 * deprecated.texi (Deprecated): Add scm_remember.
1174 2003-06-22 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1176 * data-rep.texi (Remembering During Operations): Refer to all "Guile
1177 library functions" as provoking gc.
1179 2003-06-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1181 * scheme-io.texi (File Ports): Describe call-with-input-file and
1182 call-with-output-file together. Describe with-input-from-file,
1183 with-output-to-file and with-error-to-file together, and add that they
1184 use dynamic-wind on the current port setting and keep the port open in
1185 support of captured continuations.
1186 (Closing): Describe close-input-port and close-output-port together,
1187 tweak the wording slightly.
1189 2003-06-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1191 * data-rep.texi (Vector Data): For SCM_VECTOR_BASE, SCM_STRING_CHARS
1192 and SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS, cross reference "Remembering During Operations".
1194 * scheme-data.texi (Arithmetic): round is to nearest even.
1196 2003-06-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1198 * data-rep.texi (Remembering During Operations): New section.
1200 * scheme-data.texi (Primitive Numerics): Add atan2, pow, asinh, acosh
1201 and atanh to scheme<->C table. Note asinh, acosh and atanh are C99,
1202 and scm_asinh, scm_acosh and scm_atanh are equivalents. Cross ref
1203 glibc "Mathematics". Reword this end part for clarity.
1205 * scheme-memory.texi (Memory Blocks): Use {} around types for
1206 @deftypefn, for correct name in indexes.
1207 * scheme-utility.texi (C Hooks): Ditto.
1208 * gh.texi (Scheme to C): Ditto.
1210 * gh.texi (Scheme to C): In gh_scm2newstr, lenp is size_t* not int*.
1211 This changed in guile 1.6, the docs weren't updated.
1213 2003-06-09 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
1215 From Mike Gran <spikegran@earthlink.net>. Thanks!
1217 * preface.texi: Minor punctuation mistakes. Hyphens should link
1218 compound adjectives. Commas should be placed after a "therefore"
1219 that begins a sentence. Commas should not be used to separate a
1220 list of only 2 dependent clauses.
1222 2003-06-07 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1224 * scheme-data.texi (Arithmetic): Cross reference glibc floor and ceil.
1226 2003-06-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1228 * posix.texi (File System): stat:rdev and stat:blocks can return #f,
1229 stat:blksize returns a sensible size if the field is not available.
1231 * scheme-compound.texi (Array Mapping): Reword for clarity, and in
1232 particular have the same parameter names in the text and prototypes.
1234 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Delayed Evaluation): Add delay, reword
1235 promise? and force a bit, describe recursive forcing of a promise by
1238 * scheme-io.texi (Ports): Add notes on garbage collection, and on
1239 explicitly closing file ports.
1240 (File Ports): Cross reference Ports node on explicit closing.
1242 * posix.texi (Network Sockets and Communication): Cross reference
1243 Ports node on explicit closing.
1245 * scheme-scheduling.texi (Futures): New section.
1247 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-13 Miscellaneous): In string-replace, note
1248 that start1 and end1 optional is a Guile extension.
1250 2003-05-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1252 * deprecated.texi: Add substring-move-left! and substring-move-right!.
1254 * scheme-io.texi (Default Ports): Remove duplicate descriptions of
1255 set-current-output-port and set-current-error-port.
1257 2003-05-27 Dirk Herrmann <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>
1259 * scheme-compound.texi: Clarified that vectors need to be quoted.
1261 2003-05-26 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1263 * posix.texi (Locales): Clarify setlocale a bit, list all categories,
1264 cross reference to libc.
1266 2003-05-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1268 * scheme-procedures.texi: Add index entries lambda, optargs, syncase.
1270 * scsh.texi (The Scheme shell (scsh)): Add index entries.
1272 2003-05-22 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1274 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-2): Rewrite and-let*, describing plain
1275 expression clauses and improving the examples.
1277 2003-05-17 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
1279 * posix.texi (socket): Use PF_ instead of AF_ prefix.
1281 2003-05-16 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1283 * guile.texi: Use @copying, show copyright and permissions at start of
1286 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Deleting): Rewrite delete and
1287 delete-duplicates, adding behaviour details specified by srfi-1.
1289 2003-05-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1291 * preface.texi (Guile License): Refer to COPYING.LIB.
1293 * repl-modules.texi (Loading Readline Support, Readline Options):
1294 Index entries for readline functions.
1296 * scheme-control.texi (Handling Errors): Fix regexp error key, should
1297 be `regular-expression-syntax'.
1299 * scheme-data.texi (Complex): Show z argument in prototypes.
1301 2003-05-10 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1303 * scheme-data.texi (Reals and Rationals): Fix typo @result{#f}, and
1304 put @result outside @code.
1306 * scheme-data.texi (Bitwise Operations): Note negatives are treated as
1307 infinite precision twos complement. Revise `ash' to emphasise this
1308 for right shifts of negatives. Describe integer-length behaviour on
1309 negatives. Add `...' to logand, logior, logxor since they take
1310 multiple parameters.
1311 * guile.texi (m): New macro.
1313 * scheme-control.texi (Handling Errors): Revise C support section to
1314 get index entries, and clarify parameters. Remove scm_regex_error, no
1315 longer exists and wasn't available to applications.
1317 * scheme-control.texi (Handling Errors): Index entries for error keys.
1319 2003-05-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1321 * scheme-data.texi (Bitwise Operations): Fix lognot to ones-complement.
1323 * slib.texi (JACAL): Fix @ref title.
1324 Add index entries, use @file and @code variously.
1326 2003-05-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1328 * scheme-scheduling.texi (C level thread interface): Use @deftypefn
1329 not @deftypefun, to get function names (not types) indexed.
1331 * scheme-options.texi (Build Config): Add index entries for
1332 %guile-build-info keys.
1334 2003-05-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1336 * scheme-data.texi (Integer Operations): Describe how quotient,
1337 remainder and modulo round their results.
1339 * scheme-io.texi (Reading): In read-char and peek-char, fix typos "?"
1340 in @rnindex. In port-column, use @: after i.e.
1341 (Writing): In get-print-state, two spaces after full stop. Add write,
1344 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-1 Length Append etc): Add count.
1345 (SRFI-1 Fold and Map): In reduce, fix typo "... variant of fold", add
1346 "f" to fold call shown. In reduce-right, use @code on "reduce".
1348 * data-rep.texi, gh.texi: Add spaces after some @defun names.
1349 * posix.texi (Processes): Fix typo "hhhh".
1351 2003-05-01 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1353 * posix.texi: Add index entries for many variables and functions,
1354 either using @defvar/@deffn or @vindex/@pindex. (Patch supplied
1357 2003-04-30 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
1359 * posix.texi (scm_c_port_for_each): Added.
1361 2003-04-26 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1363 * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Primitives): Document scm_str2symbol
1366 * data-rep.texi (Describing a New Type): Clarify that
1367 scm_make_smob_type_mfpe is deprecated. (Thanks to
1370 * scheme-control.texi (Handling Errors): Remove scm_sysmissing,
1371 long since gone from libguile. (Thanks to Kevin Ryde.)
1373 2003-04-23 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
1375 * posix.texi (Processes): add documentation for system*.
1377 2003-04-05 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
1379 * preface.texi: Reflect change to LGPL.
1381 2003-03-27 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
1383 * scheme-io.texi (Reading): clarify character ordering in port for
1386 2003-03-07 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
1388 * guile.texi: change MANUAL_EDITION to MANUAL-EDITION so we don't
1389 choke TeX (thanks to Dale P. Smith).
1391 * preface.texi: change MANUAL_EDITION to MANUAL-EDITION so we
1392 don't choke TeX (thanks to Dale P. Smith).
1394 2003-01-02 Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>
1396 * scheme-scheduling.texi (Low level thread primitives): Fixed typo
1397 in broadcast-condition-variable.
1399 2002-12-08 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
1401 * scheme-options.texi (Build Config): add effective-version docs.
1403 2002-11-17 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1405 Applied patches from Stephen Compall as follows. (Thanks!)
1407 2002-11-06 Stephen Compall <rushing@sigecom.net>
1409 * posix.texi: Changed quotes to match Texinfo expectations.
1411 Added references to the glibc manual.
1413 Used proper Texinfo text marking for many keywords, such as @code,
1416 Fixed argument metasyntactic variable references in
1417 file-manipulation section so the usage in the descriptions matches
1418 the usage in the declarations.
1420 2002-10-26 Stephen Compall <rushing@sigecom.net>
1422 * scheme-data.texi: Addition and change of many Texinfo tags,
1423 particularly usage of @var and @samp, as well as reformatting of
1424 some lists into tables and usage of @result.
1426 Notes about some things I didn't understand, as well as a
1427 missing section on non-control characters.
1429 2002-10-27 Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
1431 * scheme-modules.texi (Environments): only available when
1432 (ice-9 r5rs) is used.
1433 * scsh.texi (The Scheme shell (scsh)): current url is www.scsh.net.
1435 2002-10-27 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1437 * scheme-scheduling.texi: Updated mutex and condition varable
1440 2002-10-27 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1442 * debugging.texi (Debugging Features): Rewritten.
1444 2002-10-19 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1446 * new-docstrings.texi, scheme-binding.texi, scheme-io.texi,
1447 scheme-scheduling.texi, posix.texi: Automatic docstring updates.
1449 2002-10-14 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1451 * intro.texi (Whirlwind Tour): Added pointer to examples
1454 2002-10-10 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1456 * scheme-scheduling.texi (System Asyncs): Updated.
1458 2002-10-07 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1460 * scheme-scheduling.texi (Asyncs): Updated.
1461 * posix.texi (sigaction): Updated.
1463 2002-10-03 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1465 * posix.texi (Processes), scheme-options.texi (Common Feature
1466 Symbols): Refer to provided? rather than deprecated feature?.
1468 2002-10-03 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1470 * tools.texi (How guile-snarf works): Updated.
1471 (Writing your own snarfing macros): New.
1473 2002-09-25 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1475 * scheme-debug.texi (Debugging): Make sections into nodes.
1476 (Debugging Options): Node removed.
1478 * scheme-options.texi (Feature Tracking): Brought forward before
1479 sections on options.
1480 (Runtime Options): New section, to group options-related nodes.
1482 2002-09-24 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1484 * scheme-options.texi (Options and Config): Chapter name changed,
1485 and intro text improved.
1486 (Install Config): Brought forward, and renamed Build
1489 The following doc updates are from Ian Sheldon - thanks!
1491 * scheme-data.texi (Appending Strings, Regexp Functions, Match
1492 Structures): Add examples.
1493 (Regular Expressions): Add instruction to use (ice-9 regex)
1496 * slib.texi (SLIB): Remove duplicate `the'.
1498 2002-09-22 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1500 * scheme-options.texi (General option interface): Mention
1501 eval-options-interface and debug-options-interface.
1503 * scheme-debug.texi (Debugging): New node describing source
1506 2002-09-19 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1508 * scheme-utility.texi (Hook Reference): Improvements to hook docs.
1509 Thanks to Thien-Thi Nguyen for the patches.
1511 2002-09-16 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1513 * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Props): It's "set-symbol-property!",
1514 not "set-symbol-property". Thanks to Pieter Pareit!
1516 2002-09-15 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1518 * scheme-data.texi: Tell them to use 'provided?' instead of
1521 2002-09-09 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1523 * scheme-ideas.texi (Creating a Procedure): Fixed typo. Thanks to
1526 * intro.texi: Updated GNu ftp server name. Use "-lguile" instead
1527 of "libguile.a". Some small fixes/improvements.
1529 * scheme-reading.texi: Added www.schemers.org. Removed foldoc,
1530 it's too generic. Updated 'teach yourself ...' URL.
1532 2002-08-27 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1534 * scheme-modules.texi: Markup fixes and removal of gh_ references.
1535 Thanks to Dale Smith!
1537 2002-08-14 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1539 * scheme-evaluation.texi (eval-string): Updated.
1541 * scheme-scheduling.texi (Fluids): Touched up a bit, added
1544 2002-08-13 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1546 * scheme-modules.texi (More Modules Procedures): Removed.
1547 (Accessing Modules from C): New.
1549 2002-08-10 Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
1551 * scheme-procedures.texi: new section Primitive Procedures,
1552 documentation for scm_c_make_gsubr and scm_c_define_gsubr.
1553 * scheme-modules.texi (Compiled Code Modules): replace
1554 gh_new_procedure with scm_c_define_gsubr.
1556 2002-08-08 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1558 * gh.texi (Data types and constants defined by gh): Avoid
1559 generating index entry for SCM.
1561 * posix.texi (Runtime Environment): Remove duplicate doc for
1564 * data-rep.texi, scheme-memory.texi, scheme-modules.texi: Merge
1565 recent updates from stable branch.
1567 * posix.texi (File System, Time, Pipes, Network Databases,
1568 Internet Socket Examples): Add examples provided by Ian Sheldon.
1570 2002-08-08 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
1572 * scheme-binding.texi: Don't talk about 'bound?' which is gone.
1573 Thanks to Christopher Cramer.
1575 2002-08-06 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
1577 * scheme-memory.texi (Memory Blocks): add scm_calloc, scm_gc_calloc.
1580 2002-08-05 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
1582 * intro.texi, srfi-modules.texi: Added (use-modules (ice-9
1583 rdelim)) to an example that uses read-line. Thanks to Ralf
1586 * scheme-memory.texi: Added an introductory blurb about GC that I
1589 2002-08-02 Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
1591 * scheme-modules.texi: split "Scheme and modules" into
1592 "provide and require" and "Environments". Mention R5RS
1595 2002-07-16 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1597 * scheme-options.texi (Debugger options): New subsection
1598 describing stack overflow and what to do about it.
1600 2002-07-10 Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
1602 * scheme-modules.texi (Compiled Code Modules): Removed description
1603 of scm_register_module_xxx, which no longer exists. A description
1604 of current techniques is needed.
1606 2002-05-09 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1608 * scheme-data.texi (Numbers): Added description of the new values
1609 +inf.0, -inf.0 and +nan.0.
1611 * posix.texi (Runtime Environment): Added entries for 'setenv' and
1614 2002-04-28 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1616 * gh.texi, data-rep.texi: Moved `@deftyp {Data type} SCM' line
1617 from gh.texi to data-rep.texi. Both files already had similar
1618 descriptions for SCM. Given that gh.texi is deprecated, looking
1619 up `SCM' in the index should take one to the primary location
1620 rather than deprecated section. Hence this change. Added
1621 `@deftp' for scm_t_bits data type so that a proper index entry is
1622 added for this. Thanks to Richard Y. Kim!
1624 * data-rep.texi (Subrs): Changed scm_make_gsubr to
1625 scm_c_define_gsubr. Thanks to Richard Y. Kim!
1627 2002-04-24 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1629 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-13 Miscellaneous): Updated docs of
1632 2002-04-20 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1634 * scheme-intro.texi (Scheme Layout), scm.texi (Reference Layout):
1635 Node moved from a to b.
1637 * guile.texi (Scheme Intro, Basic Ideas, Guile Scripting, Command
1638 Line Handling, Debugging Features, Autoconf Support, Miscellaneous
1639 Tools, Further Reading): Moved to new Part II.
1641 * preface.texi (Manual Layout): Part numbers updated accordingly.
1643 * guile.texi (Top): Move API Overview node to beginning of Guile
1645 (Part II: Writing and Running Guile Scheme): New part; will
1646 contain content from `Programming with Guile' that pertains to
1647 writing and using Guile on the Scheme level.
1649 * scm.texi (API Overview): Renamed from `Guile API'.
1651 * guile.texi (Top), scheme-modules.texi (Included Guile Modules):
1652 Debugger User Interface node renamed Debugging Features.
1654 * debugging.texi (Stacks and Frames): Node deleted; non-duplicated
1655 material moved to scheme-debug.texi.
1656 (Debugging Features): Renamed from `Debugger User Interface'.
1658 * scheme-debug.texi (Debugging): Rename chapter `Debugging
1659 Infrastructure' and reorganize its contents.
1661 * scheme-debug.texi (Debugging), scheme-control.texi (Handling
1662 Errors): Move display-error to error-focussed section.
1664 * scheme-debug.texi (Debugging), debugging.texi (Backtrace): Move
1665 backtrace to user-level debugging chapter.
1667 * scheme-debug.texi (Debugging), scheme-procedures.texi (Procedure
1668 Properties): Move procedure-name, procedure-source and
1669 procedure-environment to procedures chapter.
1671 * scheme-debug.texi (Debugging), scheme-memory.texi (Memory
1672 Blocks): Move malloc-stats to memory management chapter.
1674 * scheme-procedures.texi (Syntax Rules): Remove mention of
1675 use-modules for loading syncase; only use-syntax really works.
1676 Thanks to Panagiotis Vossos for spotting this.
1678 * program.texi (Scheme vs C): New node, with existing material
1679 taken from chapter intro.
1680 (Programming Overview): New intro para to introduce example of
1682 (Extending Dia): New node.
1684 2002-04-17 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1686 * Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Added guile.cps, guile.fns, guile.rns,
1687 guile.tps, guile.vrs, guile.tmp.
1689 2002-04-01 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1691 * scheme-intro.texi (Scheme Layout): Remove reference to defunct
1692 Guile Extensions index.
1694 * guile.texi: Removed Guile Extensions index.
1696 * scheme-indices.texi (Guile Extensions Index): Removed.
1698 * guile.texi: Remove vgone, vdeprecated, vchanged and vnote
1699 macros; they're not actually useful after all. Update copyright
1702 * scheme-compound.texi (Vectors): Make subsections into nodes.
1703 (Vectors): Review, slightly reorg and clarify docs in this
1706 * scheme-data.texi (Symbols): Reorganized node substructure and
1707 added lots of explanatory text around the @deffn's.
1709 2002-03-29 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1711 * scheme-modules.texi (Variables): Mention obarrays.
1713 * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Tables, Symbol Props): Remove vgone
1714 markers for deprecated symbol items.
1715 (Symbol Props): Remove doc for obsolete 2 arg version of
1717 (String Miscellanea): Removed, since it only contained duplicate
1718 doc for string-ci->symbol.
1719 (Symbol Tables): Move doc for gensym to Symbol Primitives; rest of
1722 * posix.texi (Ports and File Descriptors), scheme-evaluation.texi
1723 (Fly Evaluation): Remove vgone markers for close-all-ports-except,
1724 eval2 and read-and-eval!.
1726 * data-rep.texi (Describing a New Type), scheme-compound.texi
1727 (Append/Reverse), scheme-procedures.texi (Internal Macros):
1728 Trivial updates to sync with stable branch.
1730 2002-03-27 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1732 * scheme-compound.texi (List Searching): Remove docs for
1733 `scm_sloppy_mem*', which no longer exist.
1735 2002-03-24 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1737 * guile.texi (Top), intro.texi (What is Guile?, The Basic Guile
1738 Package): Use @ifnottex instead of @ifinfo, so that HTML
1739 generation works correctly.
1741 2002-03-24 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1743 * tools.texi: Updated to reflect changes to the guile-snarf tool.
1745 2002-03-16 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1747 * scheme-utility.texi (Hooks): Further updates. New material on
1750 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Fly Evaluation): Note disappearance of
1751 eval2 and read-and-eval!.
1753 * deprecated.texi (Deprecated): Remove docs about previously
1754 deprecated items that have now been removed.
1756 2002-03-15 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1758 * tools.texi (guile-1.4 guile-snarf): Remove this node.
1759 (How guile-snarf works): Update usage and description to
1760 no longer mention "--compat=1.4" and instead "-d" and "-D".
1761 (Macros guile-snarf recognizes): Add list of deprecated macros
1762 and blurb. Add cindex for deprecated macros.
1764 2002-03-15 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1766 * scheme-utility.texi (Hooks): Reviewed and updated.
1768 * scheme-options.texi (Feature Tracking): New section.
1770 * scheme-data.texi (Arithmetic, Primitive Numerics): Add
1771 description of corresponding C functions.
1773 * scheme-utility.texi (Object Properties): Revamp documentation on
1776 * scheme-memory.texi (Weak References): Update reference to Object
1779 * guile.texi: Add macros for describing version information.
1781 * scheme-data.texi, scheme-debug.texi, scheme-io.texi,
1782 scheme-procedures.texi: Automatic updates from snarfed libguile
1785 2002-03-13 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1787 * Makefile.am (guile_toc.html): Look for guile.texi in $(srcdir).
1789 * tools.texi (How guile-snarf works): Mention "--compat=1.4", and
1790 new processing steps. Update usage example, makefile frag.
1792 (guile-1.4 guile-snarf): New subsubsection under
1793 "Init Snarfing with guile-snarf".
1795 2002-03-12 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1797 * scheme-compound.texi, scheme-data.texi, new-docstrings.texi:
1798 Automatic updates from snarfed libguile docstrings.
1800 * data-rep.texi, guile.texi, scheme-evaluation.texi,
1801 scheme-options.texi, scheme-translation.texi: Various minor
1802 enhancements ported from the stable CVS branch.
1804 2002-03-08 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1806 * tools.texi (Miscellaneous Tools): New node/chapter.
1807 (Snarfing, Init Snarfing with guile-snarf, How guile-snarf works,
1808 Macros guile-snarf recognizes, Doc Snarfing): New nodes/(sub)sections.
1809 (Executable Modules): Now a section under "Miscellaneous Tools".
1811 * guile.texi (Miscellaneous Tools): Add under "Part II".
1812 Implement by including tools.texi.
1814 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Add tools.texi.
1816 2002-03-07 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1818 * tools.texi: New file.
1820 2002-03-03 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1822 * autoconf.texi (Autoconf Background): Insert missing `of'.
1824 2002-03-01 Dirk Herrmann <D.Herrmann@tu-bs.de>
1826 * api.txt, data-rep.texi: Renamed the struct scm_cell to
1829 * data-rep.texi: Renamed scm_alloc_cell to scm_cell and
1830 scm_alloc_double_cell to scm_double_cell.
1832 2002-03-01 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1834 * scheme-memory.texi (Upgrading from scm_must_malloc et al): New
1837 2002-02-28 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1839 * data-rep.texi: Use scm_gc_malloc and scm_gc_free instead of
1840 scm_must_malloc and free in example code. Updated text for the
1841 new memory management functions.
1843 * scheme-debug.texi (malloc-stats): Refer to scm_gc_malloc instead
1844 of to scm_must_malloc.
1846 2002-02-27 Stefan Jahn <stefan@lkcc.org>
1848 * gh.texi (scm transition summary): Documented some more
1849 gh equivalents and removed appropriate FIXME's.
1851 2002-02-26 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1853 * Makefile.am: Update path to pre-inst-guile automake frag.
1855 2002-02-24 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
1857 * .cvsignore: add autoconf-macros.texi.
1859 * Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): add autoconf-macros.texi.
1861 2002-02-19 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1863 * scheme-memory.texi (Memory Blocks): New section.
1865 2002-02-05 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1867 * Makefile.am: Include $(top_srcdir)/pre-inst-guile.am.
1869 (GUILE): Delete var.
1870 (autoconf-macros.texi): Use $(preinstguiletool).
1872 2002-02-04 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1874 * autoconf.texi (Autofrisk, Using Autofrisk): New sections.
1875 (Autoconf Support): Add new sections to menu.
1877 2002-02-04 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
1879 * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Uninterned): Added node.
1881 2002-01-29 Stefan Jahn <stefan@lkcc.org>
1883 * gh.texi (scm transition summary): Documented gh equivalents
1884 `scm_c_string2str', `scm_c_substring2str' and `scm_c_symbol2str'
1885 and removed the appropriate FIXME's.
1887 2002-01-14 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
1889 * Makefile.am (autoconf-macros.texi): Also set GUILE_LOAD_PATH
1890 when invoking the uninstalled guile executable.
1892 2002-01-09 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1894 * Makefile.am (autoconf-macros.texi): Fix build bug:
1895 Write this file to srcdir. Thanks to I. N. Golubev.
1897 2002-01-08 Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
1899 * Makefile.am: attempt to use guile from $(top_builddir)/libguile
1900 when building autoconf-macros.texi. There are still problems with
1901 modules and running makeinfo when builddir != srcdir.
1903 2002-01-08 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1905 * data-rep.texi, gh.texi, guile.texi, intro.texi,
1906 misc-modules.texi, new-docstrings.texi, posix.texi, program.texi,
1907 repl-modules.texi, scheme-binding.texi, scheme-compound.texi,
1908 scheme-control.texi, scheme-data.texi, scheme-debug.texi,
1909 scheme-ideas.texi, scheme-io.texi, scheme-memory.texi,
1910 scheme-modules.texi, scheme-procedures.texi,
1911 scheme-translation.texi, scheme-utility.texi, scm.texi, slib.texi,
1912 srfi-modules.texi: Spell check. Thanks to Fabrice Bauzac.
1914 2002-01-07 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1916 * intro.texi (Linking Programs With Guile): Fix typo (superfluous
1917 `do'). Thanks to Fabrice Bauzac.
1919 2002-01-05 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1921 * intro.texi: Spell check. Thanks to Fabrice Bauzac.
1923 2002-01-02 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
1925 * guile.texi (Part II): Add "Autoconf Support"; include
1928 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Add autoconf.texi and
1929 autoconf-macros.texi.
1930 (autoconf.texi, autoconf-macros.texi): New rules.
1932 * autoconf.texi: New file.
1934 2001-12-22 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
1936 * scheme-compound.texi (Alist Example): Changed "Bismarck" to
1937 "Pierre". Thanks to Ron Peterson!
1939 2001-12-22 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1941 * program.texi (Programming Overview): Chapter renamed from
1942 `Programming Options'; some new material added.
1944 2001-12-07 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1946 * scm.texi (Guile API): Renamed from `Scheme Primitives' and
1947 broadened so that this chapter discusses the Guile API as a whole.
1949 * program.texi (Available Functionality): Revise so that text
1952 * guile.texi (Programming Intro): New introductory text.
1954 * scheme-ideas.texi (Definition): Reorder reference bullets in
1955 ascending page number order.
1957 2001-12-04 Martin Grabmueller <mg@glug.org>
1959 * scheme-procedures.texi (Optional Arguments): Typo fix: wither ->
1962 2001-12-01 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1964 * scheme-data.texi (Hooks): Moved into scheme-utility.texi.
1966 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Added scheme-compound.texi.
1968 * scheme-data.texi (Variables): Node moved to modules chapter.
1969 (Symbol Read Syntax): New node, with syntax-related material taken
1970 from old Symbols node.
1971 (Symbol Primitives): Renamed from `Symbols'.
1972 (Symbols and Variables): Renamed to `Symbols'.
1973 (Symbol Props): Renamed from `Symbol Tables'.
1974 (Symbols): General review, improvements and additional material
1975 throughout this section.
1976 (Other Data Types): New material: links to object types documented
1977 elsewhere. Also renamed node to `Other Types'.
1978 (Data Types): Split into two: `Simple Data Types' and `Compound
1979 Data Types'. Introductory blurbs rewritten accordingly.
1981 * guile.texi: Updated Notes comment.
1983 * scheme-data.texi (Rx Interface): Node moved to Guile Modules
1984 part, as the Rx interface is not core Guile.
1986 2001-11-30 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
1988 * scheme-data.texi (String Miscellanea): Removed, moving doc for
1989 string-ci->symbol into the node on Symbols.
1991 * Makefile.am (ETAGS_ARGS): Added.
1993 * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Tables): Removed doc for gentemp,
1994 intern-symbol, string->obarray-symbol, symbol-binding,
1995 symbol-bound?, symbol-set!, unintern-symbol, symbol-interned?; all
1996 of which no longer exist.
1998 2001-11-25 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
2000 * posix.texi: Fix spelling. Thanks to Chris Cramer.
2001 Reword `getpass' intro blurb.
2003 2001-11-23 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2005 * program.texi (Program Control): Remove spurious placeholder
2008 2001-11-20 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
2010 * scheme-options.texi (Install Config):
2011 Tweak `%load-path' verb to not imply it's a proc.
2012 Add documentation for `%guile-build-info'.
2014 2001-11-19 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2016 * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Tables), new-docstrings.texi: Removed
2017 doc for builtin-bindings (no longer exists).
2018 (Variables): Expanded existing description of variables. Removed
2019 doc for builtin-variable (no longer exists).
2021 * scheme-binding.texi (Top Level): New docs for define, scm_define
2022 and scm_c_define. Also clarified point about interchangeability
2025 2001-11-18 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2027 * scheme-data.texi (Vectors): Autoupdate docs for
2028 vector-move-left! and vector-move-right!.
2030 2001-11-16 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2032 * debugging.texi, deprecated.texi, intro.texi, misc-modules.texi,
2033 new-docstrings.texi, posix.texi, scheme-binding.texi,
2034 scheme-control.texi, scheme-data.texi, scheme-debug.texi,
2035 scheme-evaluation.texi, scheme-io.texi, scheme-memory.texi,
2036 scheme-modules.texi, scheme-options.texi, scheme-procedures.texi,
2037 scheme-scheduling.texi, scheme-translation.texi,
2038 scheme-utility.texi, script-getopt.texi, srfi-modules.texi: Change
2039 category for "primitive" and "procedure" @deffn's to {Scheme
2040 Procedure}; add @deffnx lines for {C Function}s; automatic updates
2041 from libguile docstring changes.
2043 * scheme-memory.texi (Garbage Collection): Removed doc for removed
2046 2001-11-14 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
2048 * scheme-procedures.texi: Spell "library" correctly.
2050 2001-11-13 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2052 * new-docstrings.texi, scheme-data.texi: Merge recent doc
2053 improvements from stable branch.
2055 * scheme-options.texi: Automatic updates from docstring changes in
2056 libguile's C source code.
2058 2001-11-12 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2060 * scheme-data.texi (Vtables, Structure Basics): Automatic doc
2061 updates for struct? and struct-vtable?.
2062 (String Searching): Add missing "for". Thanks to Scott Lenser.
2064 2001-11-08 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2066 * guile.texi (Top): Added new chapter `Programming Options'.
2068 * program.texi: New file.
2070 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Added program.texi.
2072 2001-11-07 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2074 * scheme-memory.texi, scheme-io.texi, scheme-debug.texi,
2075 scheme-data.texi, scheme-binding.texi, posix.texi,
2076 new-docstrings.texi: Automatic updates from improved libguile
2079 2001-11-04 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2081 * preface.texi: Use MANUAL_EDITION variable.
2082 (Manual Layout): Updated to reflect reorg.
2084 * guile.texi (MANUAL_EDITION): New variable, with value
2085 incremented from 1.0 to 1.1 to reflect the reorg described here.
2086 (Top): Use MANUAL_EDITION variable.
2088 * scheme-indices.texi (R5RS Index, Guile Extensions Index): Use
2089 @unnumbered rather than @chapter for these indices.
2091 * guile.texi (Top): A little top-level reshuffling, with the aims
2092 that: (1) the `Guile Scheme' (reference) part of the manual
2093 becomes the `Guile API Reference', and covers both Scheme and C
2094 interfaces; (2) non-API-reference material such as the `Basic
2095 Ideas in Scheme' chapter is collected together to form a new part
2096 `Programming with Guile'. This new part will contain general
2097 documentation on using and programming Guile in both Scheme and C,
2098 including - for example - awareness of GC when C programming, how
2099 to use the snarf macros, how to debug ...
2100 (Top): Move inclusion of scheme-indices.texi so that all indices
2101 appear together in the printed manual.
2103 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Removed appendices.texi, added
2106 * appendices.texi: Removed.
2108 * debugging.texi (Debugger User Interface): New file, same as the
2109 material that used to be in appendices.texi, but now a chapter in
2110 Part II rather than an appendix.
2112 * appendices.texi (Obtaining and Installing Guile): Moved to
2113 become a chapter in ...
2114 * intro.texi: ... Part I: Introduction to Guile.
2116 * scm.texi (I/O Extensions): Moved to become a section of ...
2117 * scheme-io.texi (Input and Output): ... this chapter.
2119 * scm.texi (Handling Errors): Moved to become a section of ...
2120 * scheme-control.texi (Control Mechanisms): ... this chapter.
2122 2001-11-06 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
2124 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-19, SRFI-19 Constants, SRFI-19 Current
2125 time and clock resolution, SRFI-19 Time object and accessors,
2126 SRFI-19 Time comparison procedures, SRFI-19 Time arithmetic
2127 procedures, SRFI-19 Date object and accessors, SRFI-19
2128 Time/Date/Julian Day/Modified Julian Day converters, SRFI-19 Date
2129 to string/string to date converters): New nodes.
2130 (SRFI Support): Add "SRFI-19" to menu.
2132 2001-11-06 Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
2134 * scripts.texi: Document `--debug' and `--no-debug'.
2136 2001-10-27 Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
2138 * guile.texi, scsh.texi: removed obsolete guile-scsh material
2139 and updated links (I don't know if it should remain in the
2140 main menu. It's like slib I think.)
2142 * minor updates to the slib installation notes.
2144 2001-10-05 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2146 * scheme-evaluation.texi (Fly Evaluation): Removed documentation
2147 for `read-and-eval!' and `eval2'. (Thanks to Alex Schroeder for
2148 noticing that they'd disappeared!)
2150 2001-10-05 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
2152 * scheme-io.texi (Writing): Add entry for `display'.
2153 Include in R5RS Index. Thanks to Alex Schroeder for suggestion.
2155 2001-09-26 Martin Grabmueller <mgrabmue@cs.tu-berlin.de>
2157 * srfi-modules.texi (SRFI-13): Tyop fix.
2158 (SRFI-13): Changed paragraph about bindings both in the code and
2161 * misc-modules.texi (Formatted Output): Tyop fix.
2162 (Formatted Output): Document ~g properly.
2164 Thanks to Alex Schroeder for pointing out the typos and sending
2167 2001-09-25 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
2169 * scheme-procedures.texi (Syntax Rules): Add `cindex' directive.
2170 Thanks to suggestion by Alex Schroeder.
2172 2001-08-30 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2174 * guile.texi (Top): Group all index nodes together so that
2175 `Info-index' works more effectively in Info. Thanks to Eric
2176 Hanchrow for the report and fix.
2178 * scheme-data.texi (Random, String Syntax, String Modification,
2179 Regular Expressions), scheme-ideas.texi (Definition),
2180 scheme-modules.texi (Dynamic Linking and Compiled Code Modules),
2181 scm.texi (Transforming Scheme name to C name, Port
2182 Implementation): Various typo fixes and clarifications merged from
2183 the stable CVS branch.
2185 2001-08-27 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2187 * intro.texi: Merged wording fixes from stable CVS branch.
2189 * Makefile.am (guile_TEXINFOS): Remove ../AUTHORS.
2191 * guile.texi: Incorporate text previously in separate AUTHORS
2194 2001-08-27 Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
2196 The change log for files in this directory continues backwards
2197 from 2001-08-27 in ../ChangeLog, as all the Guile documentation
2198 prior to this date was contained in a single directory.