Re: Docstrings and Reference manual (Re: Discussing Guile and revising interfaces)

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>]

Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:

>         (find-property-from-database-file (object-name obj) key)))
> 
> Object names are really essential for this.

Hmm...  Isn't it possible to use some indexing scheme such as the one
used by Emacs?

> Any miscellaneous properties, such as file location (e.g., "alist.c:12"),
> cross references, names of arguments (for procedures), and possible
> value types (for customizable variables), can be included.

And if we could find some simple way to specify what types of values
are allowed for each argument, we could do a lot of interesting things
using type analysis...  :)

An even wilder possibility is to move toward a future Guile where
every primitive is a generic function...