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author | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2012-01-27 13:11:58 +0100 |
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committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2012-01-27 16:33:11 +0100 |
commit | 0740cb49d1509c56184fc6802b4347ed8fc80a28 (patch) | |
tree | e3e6380f45c6850db0797b4ed210a7440684cdda /doc/ref/api-modules.texi | |
parent | 40e92f09fc3330aa33a169ad1aa6bf458633984c (diff) | |
download | guile-0740cb49d1509c56184fc6802b4347ed8fc80a28.tar.gz |
more documentation on the process of loading source and compiled files
* doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi (Load Paths): Move documentation of
%load-path and related procedures here, from Build Config. Add docs
for %load-compiled-path.
* doc/ref/api-foreign.texi:
* doc/ref/api-modules.texi:
* doc/ref/api-options.texi:
* doc/ref/scheme-using.texi: Update xrefs.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/ref/api-modules.texi')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/ref/api-modules.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ref/api-modules.texi b/doc/ref/api-modules.texi index 3c96c2a55..b9f975864 100644 --- a/doc/ref/api-modules.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-modules.texi @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ types of access are handled by the syntactic form @code{use-modules}, which accepts one or more interface specifications and, upon evaluation, arranges for those interfaces to be available to the current module. This process may include locating and loading code for a given module if -that code has not yet been loaded, following @code{%load-path} (@pxref{Build -Config}). +that code has not yet been loaded, following @code{%load-path} +(@pxref{Modules and the File System}). An @dfn{interface specification} has one of two forms. The first variation is simply to name the module, in which case its public @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ from in the @dfn{load path}. In this case, loading @code{(ice-9 popen)} will eventually cause Guile to run @code{(primitive-load-path "ice-9/popen")}. @code{primitive-load-path} will search for a file @file{ice-9/popen} in -the @code{%load-path} (@pxref{Build Config}). For each directory in +the @code{%load-path} (@pxref{Load Paths}). For each directory in @code{%load-path}, Guile will try to find the file name, concatenated with the extensions from @code{%load-extensions}. By default, this will cause Guile to @code{stat} @file{ice-9/popen.scm}, and then |