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diff --git a/doc/ref/mod-getopt-long.texi b/doc/ref/mod-getopt-long.texi index 07fab813b..cf043418f 100644 --- a/doc/ref/mod-getopt-long.texi +++ b/doc/ref/mod-getopt-long.texi @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ @node getopt-long @section The (ice-9 getopt-long) Module +The @code{(ice-9 getopt-long)} facility is designed to help parse +arguments that are passed to Guile programs on the command line, and is +modelled after the C library's facility of the same name +(@pxref{Getopt,,,libc,The GNU C Library Reference Manual}). For a more +low-level interface to command-line argument parsing, @xref{SRFI-37}. + The @code{(ice-9 getopt-long)} module exports two procedures: @code{getopt-long} and @code{option-ref}. |