Subject: bug#72208: [PATCH] doc: tour: note the top-level modules ice-9, scheme, and srfi

From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:03:01 +0200

Hi,

Following my answer in the discussion (after checking the non-ice-9
prefixes), this may be a better representation of the modules Guile
provides:

From 6838e4da9712425e7e45805a73731bb399d90a86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arne Babenhauserheide <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:03:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: reference ice-9, scheme, and srfi

* doc/ref/tour.texi (Using Modules): reference ice-9, scheme, and srfi.
---
 doc/ref/tour.texi | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/ref/tour.texi b/doc/ref/tour.texi
index c0ecb1699..91eb10bb9 100644
--- a/doc/ref/tour.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/tour.texi
@@ -210,6 +210,16 @@ processing or command line parsing.  Additionally, there exist many
 Guile modules written by other Guile hackers, but which have to be
 installed manually.
 
+Most provided modules use prefixes based on their origin:
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item @code{ice-9} includes guile-specific modules: the standard library of Guile. @xref{Status, History of ice-9, History of ice-9}
+@item @code{rnrs} and @code{scheme} include modules from the RnRS standard (@url{https://standards.scheme.org/}). @xref{R7RS Support} and @xref{R6RS Support}
+@item @code{srfi} includes Scheme Requests For Implementation; SRFI’s (@url{https://srfi.schemers.org/}). @xref{SRFI Support}
+@item Some larger features have their own prefix. These include @code{web} (@pxref{Web}), @code{oop} (@xref{GOOPS}), @code{sxml} (@pxref{SXML}), and @code{language} (@pxref{Other Languages}).
+@end itemize
+
+
 Here is a sample interactive session that shows how to use the
 @code{(ice-9 popen)} module which provides the means for communicating
 with other processes over pipes together with the @code{(ice-9
-- 
2.45.1

Best wishes,
Arne
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