Re: Defsystem

"Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it)" <[email protected]> Fri, 15 May 2026 13:21:41 +0200

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Hi

yep.  The SCM package is rather undocumented.  But the functions seem
intuitive.

I am giving it a spin.

Marco


On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 14 May 2026, at 06:21, Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > It appears that the LW API for it is quite limited.  Is there any
> pointer to its internals?  E.g., to write a FILES-IN-SYSTEM function?
>
> There are undocumented but exported things in the SCM package.
> SCM:MAP-SYSTEM-PATHNAMES for instance: you need SCM:FIND-SYSTEM to turn
> system names into systems, but then (scm:map-system-pathnames
> (scm:find-system ...) <fn>).
>
> I don't know if it descends into subsystems: I suspect it may not.
>
> --tim
>
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