Re: [Chicken-users] Handy Chicken doc additions

[felix winkelmann]

On Dec 25, 2007 4:31 AM, Jon Strait <address@hidden> wrote:

> When I was learning Chicken, it was a pain to keep scouring the Chicken
> wiki for the additional procedures that Chicken added on top of R5RS and
> the SRFI's, especially with respect to the most commonly used procs;
> working with strings, lists, and input/output.  Chicken's own
> input/output procs seem to be scattered about among 3 different units.
>
> So, I enhanced the SRFI-1 and SRFI-13 indexes, adding in entries to
> related Chicken procs where I thought appropriate.  I also created a new
> index to all the input/output procs. The goal was that everything from
> R5RS, SRFI's, and Chicken should be listed together under the right
> category.
>
> http://moonloop.net/chicken/doc/

Hey, that's nice.

>
> Also, there's an HTML-ized page and index to the user portions of the
> PCRE (regular-expression) man page.  For those of you who have tried to
> find anything useful about PCRE from browsing through that man page
> dump, you will understand why I did this.
>

Indeed...

> If anyone has suggestions for additions or adjustments, let me know.
> Maybe some of it can be folded into the Chicken wiki somewhere or give
> inspiration for some reorganizing.

Well, a start would be to add a link to the wiki pointing to your documents.


cheers,
felix