GNU bug report logs - #12173
eval'd procedures lack docstrings

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From: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: docstrings and .guile
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:25:48 +0100

Hi guilers,

While debugging, I realised the root cause of my problem was that I
could not access procedure documentation for procedures defined in my
.guile

The issue is simple to reproduce, I added

(define (test)
  "docs"
  #f)

to my .guile, and from a new guile repl

scheme@(guile-user)> ,d test
#f
scheme@(guile-user)> (define (test) "docs" #f)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,d test
docs

This happens on 32bit fedora 16 on stable-2.0 git commit
1321a36ed61deb9431b41768dc92cb7230c9afa1

-- 
Ian Price -- shift-reset.com

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"

Message #8 received at 12173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: 12173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12173: docstrings and .guile
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:33:01 +0100

Hi!

Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com> skribis:

> The issue is simple to reproduce, I added
>
> (define (test)
>   "docs"
>   #f)
>
> to my .guile, and from a new guile repl
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> ,d test
> #f

The issue is that closures returned by ‘eval’ have no docstring:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guile-user)> (procedure-documentation (eval '(lambda (a b) "doc" a)  (current-module)))
$29 = #f
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Trying to fix it now.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #13 received at 12173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: 12173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12173: docstrings and .guile
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:46:21 +0100

Fixed in c438cd7, please test!

Ludo’.

Message #18 received at 12173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 12173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12173: docstrings and .guile
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:19:11 +0000

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Fixed in c438cd7, please test!

Thanks, works fine for me.

-- 
Ian Price -- shift-reset.com

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"

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