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Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes: > Have people on the list here given thought to how guile should be > self-documenting (if at all)? Well, not much thought has been given too it. Currently, it is possible to put documentation into closures: (define (nisse x) "Nissefiera x." (hurkel x 3)) (procedure-documentation nisse) --> "Nissefiera x." but this is about it. > I suppose if a help system was included into guile that would be a > big win: specially if it improved on Emacs' system. Agreed. > In particular I would like to suggest that the location of every > definition from library files be stored: to make it easy to find the > source of definitions and modules. Yes. This feature will definitely exist in the Guile self-documentation, and how about names and acceptable types of arguments? /mdj