guile-tut: Using Guile to program in Scheme

2001-09-16 Thread Alex Schroeder
The node "Using Guile to program in Scheme" in the tutorial has the "result" glyph ("=>") at the end of the result line instead of at the beginning: ;; ask for the length of `ls' guile> (length ls) 7=> ;; pick out the first element of the list guile> (car ls)

guile-tut.info: Jump Start

2001-09-16 Thread Alex Schroeder
The example uses 500: (recursive-factorial 500) The following paragraph, however, uses 1000: In this example we did some simple arithmetic `(+ 20 35)' and got the answer `55'. Then we coded the classic (and rather wasteful) factorial algorithm, and got a glimpse of Schem

guile.info: Procedures for On the Fly Evaluation

2001-09-16 Thread Alex Schroeder
In the node "Procedures for On the Fly Evaluation" of the Guile Reference manual, the primitive "read-and-eval!" is described. However, it doesn't seem to be available. Maybe it is defined in some module? If so, I looked at the paragraph describing the primitive, at the beginning of the node, a