Hello David,

On Mon 05 Dec 2011 09:11, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes:

> David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> (symbol-set! #f (string->symbol name) value)
>> (module-define! (current-module) (string->symbol name) value)

Indeed, the module system needs better documentation.

>> Is this somebody's idea of a joke?

It might be!  I personally can't say though, as things have been this
way for longer than my time in Guile.

> Apparently.  The C interface offers scm_define which works fine for this
> purpose.

Yes.  Version 2.0.x has better-documented interfaces, here:

  
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Accessing-Modules-from-C.html

The Scheme equivalents are not documented as well, however.  Definitely
a bug, there.

Regards,

Andy
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