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<acdw>hi guilers! whence the ice-9 nomenclature? i am new
<lampilelo>sneek: ice-9
<sneek>I've heard ice-9 is "a nod to the fictional substance in Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Cat's Cradle, capable of acting as a seed crystal to crystallize the mass of software" <http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/01/07/a-brief-history-of-guile>
<acdw>ahhhh smort, i do love cat's cradle. thanks lapilelo! (and sneek of course)
<acdw>okay so the car of the librarly names are the namespaces, and so on
<lampilelo>sneek: modules
<sneek>Its been said that modules is (use-modules (foo bar baz)) means to search for the module defined as (define-module (foo bar baz)) in the file "foo/bar/baz.scm", relative to any dir in the load path.
<acdw><3 thank you
<lampilelo>sorry for talking to you through a bot lol :P
<acdw>hahah no worries, the bots give consistent answers
<lampilelo>these two are actually the only sneek notes i know of
<lampilelo>so no more
<acdw>lmao, good thing i asked the right ones, i guess
<lampilelo>haha, yeah
<acdw>like if you onlly know the phrase "i don't know spanish" in spanish
<sneek>wb dsmith-work!
<dsmith-work>Morning Greetings, Guilers
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<tricon>greetings, dsmith-work.
<Guest1251>sneek: botsnack
<sneek>:)
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