Re: [Chicken-users] aliases in the wiki

[Tobia Conforto]

Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
> I have tweaked a bit the code in Svnwiki a bit to support defining  
> aliases for functions in the wiki.  My thinking is that (1) for all  
> procedures f, http://chicken.wiki.br/f should return something  
> useful, regardless of where f is defined and (2) we shouldn't have  
> to duplicate information in the wiki.

I agree 100%, but I think this should be done automatically, see my  
post about automatic index generation from the <proc> tags.


> in those cases in which we have collisions, we can simply create a  
> page listing the multiple possible meanings, something along the  
> lines of:
>
> FormatThere are the following pages about this:* Eggs:
>  - format
>  - format-modular
> * Procedures:
>  - format at the format-modular egg

Again, I don't think it should be done by hand, as the potential for  
mistakes and omissions is huge.  Automatic generation will be easy to  
implement, if/when we tag every procedure definition.


> For the egg pages we would simply prefix them (so format-modular  
> would become egg-format-modular)

This I'm not so sure about, because sometimes you remember the name of  
a procedure but not its egg, and because usually eggs become part of  
the domain-specific language you assemble to solve your problem, after  
which you don't care much anymore which egg the procedures came from.


Tobia