Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Or global variables in the build stage, to be more accurate.  :-)
>
> It’s really a fine point though and shouldn’t block the whole tutorial!

OK, I'll go ahead then.

Another Guix user told me he got confused about the Guile example.
`format` seemed confusing.  I suggested replacing it with

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define foo "World")
(display (string-append "Hello " foo "\n"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Apparently the formatting of the REPL was also confusing ("What is this
dollar thing, is it some result?" kind of confusion).
What about changing the formatting to

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(display (string-append "Hello " foo "\n"))
=> Hello World
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Or should I use a Unicode arrow (e.g. ⇒ in the Guile manual)?

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Pierre Neidhardt
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