From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A not quite stylish proposal for command line processing
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:38:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IFiZP-0001qq-Vl@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sl75rfrr.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:57:12 +0200)
The problem is that the equivalent (pop command-line-args-left) is the
only way to pass strings from the shell or elsewhere without having to
requote them as Lisp strings. (*argv++) might be quite over the top,
but at least (pop argv) would still be quite concise, much more
Lispish, and it might make it easier for people to actually find the
respective variable.
It is a fine method of doing this. If people really want to do this,
then let's install some such thing.
However, I am not sure that the name `argv' is useful now
that even most hackers are not C programmers. Does any other
language use the name `argv'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-31 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-29 13:07 A not quite stylish proposal for command line processing David Kastrup
2007-07-30 16:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-30 16:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-07-30 17:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-30 17:24 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-07-30 16:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-31 3:38 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-07-31 5:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-31 20:22 ` Richard Stallman
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