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Re:What's happening with Arc? by metamemetics on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @03:16AM (#1833373)
Do you have any thoughts on a built in help operator mapping other operators to docstrings?
Re:What's happening with Arc? by evanrmurphy on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @03:31AM (#1833387)
There is one in Anarki: http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/master/help/

Usage examples:

  arc> help.acons
  [fn]  (acons x)
   Determines if `x' is a `cons' cell or list.
      Unlike 'alist, this function will return nil if given an empty list
      See also [[atom]] [[alist]] [[dotted]] [[isa]] [[cons]] [[list]] 
  nil
  arc> help.alist
  [fn]  (alist x)
   Return true if argument is a possibly empty list
      Unlike 'acons, this function returns t when given an empty list
      See also [[atom]] [[acons]] [[dotted]] [[isa]] [[cons]] [[list]] 
  nil
  arc> help.afn
  [mac] (afn parms . body)
   Creates a function which calls itself with the name `self'.
      See also [[fn]] [[rfn]] [[aif]] [[awhen]] [[aand]] 
  nil
Re:What's happening with Arc? by metamemetics on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @04:12AM (#1833451)
Btw I enjoyed your http://www.tryarc.org website, great job.

It needs a big GET ARC button at the bottom though. Linking either to the canonical install page on arclanguage.org or the community anarki git repo. The decision is yours as to which one, no pressure ;)

[ The site is an amazing piece of advertising, but it's not closing the sale :/ ]