Re: [dev-serveez] Guile switch progress

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: "Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:17:06 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, stefan wrote:
> 
> > > It does the same as gh_define, but returns a `variable object', that
> > > is an object which stands for a variable.  You can use the
> > > SCM_VARIABLE_REF macro to extract the value from a variable, after
> > > reading in the config file.
> > 
> > Didn't find it. Do you mean `scm_intern_symbol' ?

No.  scm_intern_symbol returns an unspecified value.  I think
scm_sysintern is the correct function for 1.4 and earlier.

> I found "extern SCM scm_variable_ref (SCM var);"
> in <libguile/variable.h>, to be used from <libguile.h>
> 
> that's guile 1.4... mgrabmue: is that missing in earlier guile versions ?

I think it's available in earlier versions, too.

'martin