Re: [Chicken-users] all bound symbols?

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 8/3/07, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8/3/07, Shawn Rutledge <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Is there a way to list all bound symbols, or even the entire symbol
> > table, from csi?
> >
> > E.g.
> >
> > #;7> (use tcp)
> > #;8> tcp-read-timeout
> > Error: unbound variable: tcp-read-timeout
>
> You seem to have an older chicken, or a new chicken that still uses
> the old runtime library.

It is the 2.6 release.

> > but the documentation says that's what it is... so I would like to
> > dump all known symbols and grep for something similar.
>
> Try "apropos" fom the "utils" unit.

That's a good one to know about, thanks.

Version 2.6 - linux-unix-gnu-x86 - [ libffi dload ]
(c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann
#;1> (use tcp)
; loading library tcp ...
#;2> (use utils)
; loading library utils ...
#;3> (apropos "printf")
sprintf
printf
fprintf
#;4> (apropos "timeout")
##sys#thread-block-for-timeout!
#;5>