Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing?
Maxim Cournoyer 18 Aug 2026 01:35 UTC
Hello,
Artyom Bologov <xxxxxx@aartaka.me> writes:
> Hi y’all,
>
> Putting aside the issue of Custom Elements forever, I agree with Arthur
> (with the exception of the LLM point:) HTML is the best format for
> SRFIs. It’ll likely exist forever and is probably the most widely
> supported hypertext format out there. I mean yeah, Gemtext exists, but
> it’s sooooooo under-specified and under-powered. HTML can be abused
> horrendously and might / will differ between different authors, but
> that’s simply a consequence of its power.
>
> For those who want a machine-processable SRFI information, there is
> https://github.com/schemeorg-community/scheme-index (that powers
> index.scheme.org and scheme-index.aartaka.me.) It is incomplete, but
> quite expansive already. Help improving it, and we’ll all have a good
> machine-readable SRFI reference!
That sounds useful; is it maintained by hand, or does it extract the
useful information from the SRFI sources (HTML) ?
It's also only for the procedures/macros, etc., not the explanatory text
of SRFI itself, which I've used to documented e.g. SRFI 64 in Guile
(converted from HTML via the snarfi hack/script linked earlier).
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Thanks,
Maxim