Re: [Chicken-users] aliases in the wiki

[felix winkelmann]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I have tweaked a bit the code in Svnwiki a bit to support defining
>  aliases for functions in the wiki.  My thinking is that (1) for all
>  procedures f, http://chicken.wiki.br/f should return something useful,
>  regardless of where f is defined and (2) we shouldn't have to
>  duplicate information in the wiki.
>
>  Here is how I do it:
>
>  $ ln -s 'stream-ext#stream-xcons' stream-xcons
>  $ svn add stream-xcons
>  $ svn ci -m "Creating link for procedure stream-xcons"
>
>  This causes accesses to http://chicken.wiki.br/stream-xcons to be
>  redirected to http://chicken.wiki.br/stream-ext#stream-xcons.  Go
>  ahead and try it.
>
>  As such, we don't have to split the eggs' documentation wiki files (or
>  documents in the manual) and we can still allow people to play with
>  URL hacking.
>
>  Feel free to create links such as those.  To make it even easier, you
>  can send me mails with the subject 'chicken wiki links' containing
>  lines of the form 'source-for-link destination#url' and I will define
>  those links.  If Mario or some other hackers can programatically
>  extract a list of such functions and their location in the wiki,
>  that'd be neat. :-)
>

Could we please remove this? It makes a grep over the working
copy impossible.


cheers,
felix