From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: On quitting and exiting Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:40:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1363236047.97499.YahooMailNeo@web120402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Mike Gran NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363236065 3960 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2013 04:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:41:05 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 14 05:41:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UFzym-0002In-5D for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFzyP-0004ZA-GX for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:40:47 PDT X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 002.001, SGVsbG8uCgpUaGVyZSBzZWVtIHRvIGJlIGZvdXIgd2F5cyB0byBmb3JjZSBhbiBleGl0LgoKSW4gYm9vdC05LCBhIGZ1bmN0aW9uIGBxdWl0JyBpcyBkZWZpbmVkLsKgIEl0IGFwcGVhcnMgaW4gdGhlIG1hbnVhbCwKYnV0LCBpbiBib290LTkgaXQgY2FuIHRha2UgYW4gYXJndW1lbnQuwqAgSW4gdGhlIG1hbnVhbCBpdCBuZXZlcgp0YWtlcyBhbiBhcmd1bWVudC4KCkluIGJvb3QtOSwgYGV4aXQnIGlzIGFsaWFzZWQgdG8gcXVpdC7CoCBJbiB0aGUgbWFudWFsIGBleGl0JyBpcyAKCnVuZG9jdW1lbnRlZDsgaG8BMAEBAQE- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.137.519 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 98.138.229.41 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15901 Archived-At: Hello.=0A=0AThere seem to be four ways to force an exit.=0A=0AIn boot-9, a = function `quit' is defined.=A0 It appears in the manual,=0Abut, in boot-9 i= t can take an argument.=A0 In the manual it never=0Atakes an argument.=0A= =0AIn boot-9, `exit' is aliased to quit.=A0 In the manual `exit' is =0A=0Au= ndocumented; however, in the documentation in (rnrs programs),=0Ait notes t= hat (rnrs programs)'s version of exit is the same=0Aas the "core" version o= f exit.=0A=0AAnd then there is primitive-exit and primitive-_exit, which ar= e=0Adescribed in the manual.=0A=0ASo clearly, there's some confusion here.= =A0 Are 'quit' and 'exit'=0Asupposed to be API?=A0 Is the fact that they ca= n take an argument=0Asupposed to be documented?=0A=0AOr is 'primitive-exit'= the generally the way to go? =0A=0A=0AThanks,=0A=0AMike=0A