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<rlb>ieure: some of the module-related bits are just not well documented yet.

<rlb>I've needed to poke around in boot-9.scm myself, more than once.

<cow_2001>is there no way to attach docstrings to forms?

<cow_2001>procedures may have the documentation procedure property

<identity>cow_2001: afaik you can attach docstrings only to functions

<cow_2001>been thinking of how one might define docstrings for syntax and maybe (define-doc foo "FOO is a syntactic form or whatever that does x y and z.") (define-syntax foo ...) could work?

<cow_2001>i mean, from the point of view of a user

<cow_2001>if the first object of a procedure definition's body is a string, it'll be the docstring of that procedure, but it's not that easy for syntax definitions

<mwette>there are object properties

<mwette>(define document (make-object-property)) (set! (document) form "bla")

<mwette>er, (set! (document form) "bla")

<mwette>(document form) => "bla"

<rlb>cow_2001: depending on what you're looking for, possibly related: https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/pulls/73

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