From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A not quite stylish proposal for command line processing Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:22:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85k5sjwe70.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86sl75rfrr.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <85wswh3ygw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185913355 1933 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2007 20:22:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 22:22:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFyEZ-0002Vg-Qd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:22:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyEZ-0002oS-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyCl-00027T-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyCj-00026d-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyCj-00026Y-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFyCi-0002lA-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFyEu-0001qV-3Y; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:22:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <85wswh3ygw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:59:27 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75871 Archived-At: Perl has @ARGV, awk has ARGV, Python has sys.argv, bash has $@ (well, you can't always win), Ruby has ARGV, lua has arg, Java has args[]... Ok, we can have argv too.