---- "Scott N. Walck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guile folks, > > Is there a way to ask for the definition of a procedure or to find the > source code for a procedure?
Yes. > For example, "symbol" is a guile procedure. I can see that by typing > its name. > > guile> symbol > #<procedure symbol args> > > But how can I find more information, such as its definition, including > what types of arguments it expects and what it does and returns? I > don't see symbol listed in the Guile Reference manual index. I'm not > sure where to look in the source code. $ guile guile> symbol #<procedure symbol args> guile> (procedure-source symbol) (lambda args (string->symbol (apply string args))) guile> This only works for Scheme, not for primitives written in C. -Dale
