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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Doug Evans <dje@sceeck.org>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Documentation for Scheme scripting
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eh8wk8b9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEei7h9s+sqRtL9BWC=zWyi0Tb4Uj-w5M9_HcWzGs=P49FjAcg@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 22:29:10 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <dje@sceeck.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, eliz@gnu.org
> 
> > Though I would like to say now that this isn't really Scheme we're
> > talking about, but Guile.  There are differences.  I think it would be
> > best to be explicit about that in the docs.
> 
> How far do you think Guile vs Scheme should be pushed?

I don't speak for Tom, but my opinion is that you can use both
interchangeably.  Guile is an implementation of Scheme (AFAIK); its
sources are replete with references to Scheme, and many of its
variables/symbols use "scheme" or some shorthand thereof.

More specifically, I would use "Scheme" when talking about variables,
functions, etc., and "guile" when talking about the package and the
library.  Other use cases are gray area.

> Should the command to invoke a Scheme command be named "guile" instead
> of "scheme"?

Yes, I think we should use "guile" in this particular use case.


      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-08 21:12 Doug Evans
2013-09-09  2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-09 17:00 ` Tom Tromey
2013-09-09 17:13   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-10  5:30     ` Doug Evans
2013-09-10  5:29   ` Doug Evans
2013-09-10 15:25     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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