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<qookie>is there a function to generate the cartesian product of some lists in the standard library?

<apteryx>is it possible to quote a reader macro?

<apteryx>e.g. #~

<apteryx>I want to produce code as data, where #~ is potentially unknown

<isaneran>apteryx: seems like they get expanded before the quoting happens

<isaneran>however maybe you could locally bind it to override or something like that

<isaneran>but for producing code as data, wouldn't it be fine to produce it expanded to (gexp ...) ?

<civodul>just stumbled upon http://hop.inria.fr/home/texinfo.html

<civodul>(texinfo) compiled with Hoot, when? :-)

<dthompson>y'know... this kind of came up in the #spritely channel

<dthompson>some folks are having a hard time finding stuff in guile's html docs since texinfo's html export... sucks.

<dthompson>guile can parse texinfo... kinda. needs a few more things to parse a full manual.

<dthompson>but I don't think it's too big of a stretch to say that we could parse the whole manual with guile and generate a much better html manual

<dthompson>html export, that is

<fjl>dthompson: Hear, hear!

<dthompson>and with hoot, the manual could eventually have embedded REPLs to try out guile without installing anything

<dthompson>and of course we could incorporate some nice dynamic features that would otherwise had to have been implemented in js

<dthompson>someone is experimenting with at least some of this over in #spritely. we'll see what they come up with.

<dthompson>they're inspired by the Janet docs

<dthompson>as a step towards a guile repl in the browser, we just published a little something: https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-in-scheme-on-wasm-in-the-browser.html

<janneke>scheme in scheme, such fun!

<dsmith>While we are talking features, how about running all the examples in the manual to make sure they still work?

<dthompson>that would be cool, though would require each example to be completely self-contained

<dthompson>and have some sort of expected output to match against

<dthompson>a literate test suite of sorts ;)

<dthompson>guix does a good job of improving texinfo's horrible html export by post-processing it. we borrowed that technique for spritely's docs.

<dthompson>but it's obviously not ideal to have to clean up garbage

<fjl>I'm working at the moment on upstreaming some civodul's code from Guix to Guile proper and I'm making sure that all the examples in docs have matching test cases.

<dthompson>fjl: oh neat!

<fjl>BTW, minority of procedures in guile docs have examples and among them only some include @result{}

<dthompson>TIL about @result{}

<dthompson>had no idea

<fjl>Looks like there are multiple patterns used in examples. That's one of them.

<fjl>sometimes @example sometimes @lisp

<apteryx>sneek: later tell isaneran it seems to work with gexp/ungexp, thanks!

<sneek>Will do.

<cow_2001>is there a way of embedding scheme inside of skribilo?

<cow_2001>or maybe it's really that you embed skribilo inside of scheme with minimal boilerplate so that it feels as if you embed scheme in skribilo?

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