Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> Apparently the formatting of the REPL was also confusing ("What is this
> dollar thing, is it some result?" kind of confusion).
> What about changing the formatting to
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (display (string-append "Hello " foo "\n"))
> => Hello World
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Or should I use a Unicode arrow (e.g. ⇒ in the Guile manual)?
The dollar thing is for return values. The Guile manual uses the arrow,
but that would be incorrect in the above example as “Hello world” is not
returned by “display” — it is merely a side effect. In the Guile manual
this would be indicated by “⊣”.
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Ricardo
