bug#24342: Typo in manual?

2016-08-30 Thread Wilfred Hughes
I was reading https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Nil.html#Nil and noticed that the last code section uses deffn. Is this correct? Since it's intended to be an elisp function, shouldn't it be 'defun'?

bug#24363: Clarify the VM docs

2016-09-03 Thread Wilfred Hughes
The docs currently state: > The easiest (and most fun) way to depend on a virtual machine is to implement the virtual machine within Guile itself. This way the virtual machine provides what Scheme needs (tail calls, multiple values, call/cc) and can provide optimized inline instructions for Guile

bug#24363: Acknowledgement (Clarify the VM docs)

2016-09-03 Thread Wilfred Hughes
Here's my proposed change as a patch against master, currently cb421b6546ad3e09299462df63c389aa734fdba8. On 4 September 2016 at 01:06, GNU bug Tracking System wrote: > Thank you for filing a new bug report with debbugs.gnu.org. > > This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your me

bug#24363: Acknowledgement (Clarify the VM docs)

2016-09-04 Thread Wilfred Hughes
Patch attached. I'd like to sort copyright papers too, let me know what's necessary. From 0b7a585ffb3a0e5b33e10101cc817dbf50736a2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilfred Hughes Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 20:14:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify bootstrap docs * doc/ref/vm.texi: Add a senten

bug#24374: Favour docstrings for Guile functions

2016-09-05 Thread Wilfred Hughes
nged. From 65b1e251f0e54e2228c87227894982e700ddee89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilfred Hughes Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 22:23:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Favor docstrings for describing the purpose of functions. * module/ice-9/boot-9.scm: Where functions have docstring-style comments, make them proper docstrings. --- module/ice-9/