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Package std-info (in std.i) - help and information

Index of documented functions or symbols:

about

DOCUMENT about, pattern;
      or about, pattern, 1;
  Search and display documentation about functions (or all symbols if
  second argument is true) matching regular expression PATTERN.  If
  multiple matches are found, the user is prompted to select a subject.
  PATTERN may be a string, or a function or structure definition.  If
  PATTERN is a string with a trailing "/i", the other part of the
  regular expression is interpreted so as to ignore case.

  Set
    about_glob = strglob;
  to use UNIX shell style matching (e.g.- ls command line) to match
  PATTERN instead of grep style matching.  The default about_glob
  function is strgrepm.

SEE ALSO: help, info, strgrep, strglob

copyright

DOCUMENT copyright, (no) warranty

  Copyright (c) 2005.  The Regents of the University of California.
                All rights reserved.

  Yorick is provided "as is" without any warranty, either expressed or
  implied.  For a complete statement, type:

     legal

  at the Yorick prompt.

SEE ALSO: legal

get_pkgnames

DOCUMENT get_pkgnames(all)
  returns list of package names, ALL non-zero means to return both
  statically and dynamically loaded packages, otherwise just the
  initial statically loaded packages.

SEE ALSO: get_path

help

DOCUMENT help, topic
      or help
  Prints DOCUMENT comment from include file in which the variable
  TOPIC was defined, followed by the line number and filename.
  By opening the file with a text editor, you may be able to find
  out more, especially if no DOCUMENT comment was found.
  Examples:
    help, set_path
  prints the documentation for the set_path function.
    help
  prints the DOCUMENT comment you are reading.

  This copy of Yorick was launched from the directory:
  **** Y_LAUNCH (computed at runtime) ****
  Yorick's "site directory" at this site is:
  **** Y_SITE (computed at runtime) ****
  You can find out a great deal more about Yorick by browsing
  through these directories.  Begin with the site directory,
  and pay careful attention to the subdirectories doc/ (which
  contains documentation relating to Yorick), and i/ and
  contrib/ (which contain many examples of Yorick programs).
  Look for files called README (or something similar) in any
  of these directories -- they are intended to assist browsers.
  The site directory itself contains std.i and graph.i, which
  are worth reading.

  Type:
    help, dbexit
  for help on debug mode.  If your prompt is "dbug>" instead of
  ">", dbexit will return you to normal mode.

  Type:
    quit
  to quit Yorick.

SEE ALSO: about, quit, info, print, copyright, warranty, legal

info

DOCUMENT info, expr [, expr2, expr3, ...]
  prints the data type and array dimensions of EXPR.  Multiple
  expressions result in multiple descriptions.  You can also
  invoke info as a function to return a string or array of strings
  instead of printing the result.

SEE ALSO: about, help, print

legal

DOCUMENT legal
  Prints the legal details of Yorick's copyright, licensing,
  and lack of warranty.

SEE ALSO: copyright, warranty

library

DOCUMENT library
  print the Y_SITE/i/README file at the terminal.

split_path

DOCUMENT split_path(path)
  splits PATH, a colon or semi-colon delimited list of directories
  as returned by get_path, into a string array with one directory
  per element.

SEE ALSO: set_path, get_pkgnames

symbol_def

DOCUMENT symbol_def(func_name)(arglist)
      or symbol_def(var_name)
  invokes the function FUNC_NAME with the specified ARGLIST,
  returning the return value.  ARGLIST may be zero or more arguments.
  In fact, symbol_def("fname")(arg1, arg2, arg3) is equivalent to
  fname(arg1, arg2, arg3), so that "fname" can be the name of any
  variable for which the latter syntax is meaningful -- interpreted
  function, built-in function, or array.

  Without an argument list, symbol_def("varname") is equivalent to
  varname, which allows you to get the value of a variable whose name
  you must compute.

  DO NOT OVERUSE THIS FUNCTION.  It works around a specific deficiency
  of the Yorick language -- the lack of pointers to functions -- and
  should be used for such purposes as hook lists (see openb).

SEE ALSO: symbol_set, symbol_exists

symbol_exists

DOCUMENT symbol_exists(name)
  Check whether variable/function named NAME exists.  This routine can be
  used prior to symbol_def to check existence of a symbol since symbol_def
  raise an error for non-existing symbol.

SEE ALSO: symbol_def, symbol_names, symbol_set.

symbol_names

DOCUMENT symbol_names()
      or symbol_names(flags)
  Return an  array of  strings with  the names of  all symbols  of given
  type(s) found in  global symbol table.  To select  the type of symbol,
  FLAGS is be the bitwise-or of one or more of the following bits:
      1 - basic array symbols
      2 - structure instance symbols
      4 - range symbols
      8 - nil symbols (i.e. symbols undefined at current scope level)
     16 - interpreted function symbols
     32 - builtin function symbols
     64 - structure definition symbols
    128 - file stream symbols
    256 - opaque symbols (other than the ones below)
    512 - list objects
   1024 - auto-loaded functions

  The special value FLAGS = -1 can be used to get all names found in
  global symbol table.  The default (if FLAGS is nil or omitted) is to
  return the names of all symbols but the nil ones.  Beware that lists,
  hash tables and auto-loaded functions are also opaque symbols (use
  0xffffff7f to get *all* opaque symbols).

SEE ALSO: symbol_def, symbol_exists, symbol_set.

symbol_set

DOCUMENT symbol_set, var_name, value
  is equivalent to the redefinition
       varname= value
  except that var_name="varname" is a string which must be computed.

  DO NOT OVERUSE THIS FUNCTION.  It works around a specific deficiency
  of the Yorick language -- the lack of pointers to functions, streams,
  bookmarks, and other special non-array data types.

SEE ALSO: symbol_def, symbol_exists

warranty

SEE: copyright