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For lisp theres apropos, describe and documentation. Also slime comes with slime inspector which is pretty nice. If youre using lispworks or franz they have fan

by dman 16y ago

For lisp theres apropos, describe and documentation. Also slime comes with slime inspector which is pretty nice. If youre using lispworks or franz they have fancy inspectors too. If youre doing scheme then racket (formerly plt scheme) comes with the best documentation system Ive ever seen in a programming environment.

rwl 16y ago
That's helpful, thanks! Though often, the problem I have is that I don't know the name of the function I'm looking for, so things like apropos, describe, and documentation aren't going to be much help unless I can apply them to packages/modules. I have so far spent the most time learning Racket. Their documentation is great, but I do wish that I could explore the library more from the REPL, rather than escaping to a browser. Do you know of any way in Racket to do something like (e.g.): (require racket/vector) (help racket/vector) where the latter form would print a quick summary of what's exported by the racket/vector module?
- dman 16y ago
  In racket you can use the "Help Desk" from the Help menu which has really comprehensive browser based documentation. I am looking to see if there is anything for repl based exploration.
  - dman 16y ago
    module->exports is what you need.
    - rwl 16y ago
      Awesome, thanks!