currently fns takes an optional filter argument, and defaults to prefix. i.e., you give it a string, and it keeps all of the keys from the "sig" table that begin with that string. So it finds both macs and defs.
I've modified my version so that a) if you don't give any arg it returns the signatures all currently defined functions and macros, and b) it can take unquoted symbols as input instead of just strings. That makes use from repl easier.
I don't know how I would filter defs from macs. Maybe have def and mac store them in a different table? How do you get the object associated with a symbol? If I knew that, we could filter based on (type key).
I just found the macro varif on Anarki, which returns the value if bound. Would that be better, or worse? I should think it might be a little better, but I don't know.
True, this is running, I think, in the repl. So I don't think it matters that much. But having a good way to look up the value of a symbol is kind of important, I think. I want to do similar things that might be used in a "performance-sensitive" environment, not that arc is really performance sensitive in general. ;)
rntz wanted two separate functions to search macs and defs, so I suggested filtering the sig table based on whether each symbol was a mac or fn; that would only be possible if there was a way to turn the symbol into a value we could take the type of.
