Re: Guile reference manual questions

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:

    Colin> Why not follow a pattern like the Emacs Lisp manual?  It
    Colin> starts out documenting features of Emacs Lisp that are in
    Colin> common with other Lisp dialects (lists, vectors,
    Colin> evaluation), and gets more specialized in later chapters
    Colin> (buffers, regexps, Emacs internals).

    Colin> So in this case, the Guile manual would start out
    Colin> documenting mostly the Scheme language, while later
    Colin> chapters could deal with GOOPS, the module system, etc.

    Colin> That way, the Scheme experts know they can safely skip the
    Colin> first few chapters, while the beginners can read the manual
    Colin> the entire way through in a continuous fashion.

Thanks - yes, that is very much what I have in mind now.

Regards,

        Neil