At some point I might get into updating the documentation on Black Hole.

(Its structure will be something like this:
 * There will be one manual document for Black Hole. It'll be in HTML with a PDF version. As for now it will regard the main branch (non-syntactic tower), and mention the syntactic tower branch. This document is about Black Hole only, not about any modules.
     It'll have updated download links etc.
     Should the syntactic tower branch get to prove to be better the manual's focus will switch to that as the primary.
 * Peripherally on a secondary position the current set of bundled libs will be available and with a manual alike the current one, optional for anyone interested. This is an informal limited general-purpose library collection, not a 'standard library'.)

Until then feel free to send me any feedback, or other material you see could fit in there that's not currently in http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/images/3/30/Black_Hole_Core.pdf .

Brgds,
Mikael

2011/10/14 Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@fysh.org>

On 14 Oct 2011, at 04:11, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Well, I found other items on gmane's archive of this mailing list.  IT
> looks as if the answer is that Gambit itself doesn't provide modules at
> all, despite the mention in the Tour of Scheme in Gambit.  But it seems
> that there exists a completely separate module facility that can be used
> with it.  With its own installation instructions.  And by the way, one
> should use (import ...) instead of (use ...)

Hi Hendrik,

The module system is Blackhole. Yes, it is separate from Gambit. I volunteered to fix the documentation for Mikael about the use / import confusion, but then didn't – apologies. I also volunteered to write a usage guide for Blackhole for Per (the maintainer) based on some very useful emails he sent me, but I didn't do that either, sorry.

I've just downloaded Openoffice to have a go at fixing the guide. I'll forward the emails from Per on to you as I think you'll find them helpful.

Thanks,
       Benjohn

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