From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nala Ginrut Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: On quitting and exiting Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:14:42 +0800 Organization: HFG Message-ID: <1363238082.3025.2.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> References: <1363236047.97499.YahooMailNeo@web120402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363238100 18548 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2013 05:15:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 14 06:15:23 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 1UG0VY-0005re-Q9 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:15:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UG0VC-0003Re-9Q for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UG0V6-0003M8-EN for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UG0V5-0001sS-FM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:14:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f50.google.com ([209.85.160.50]:34177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UG0V5-0001sK-9K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id up1so1716219pbc.23 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:14:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to :references:organization:content-type:x-mailer:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XLtfio6qOKLrApVrZwTsMxYuRryl3RCRhhjHO3eNfiI=; b=zTtvxxUA13fD2mnYFuDyhDtFzqXAdz/TVR+jBIOTy90LuzVuV9fyQoPmuqZCP4KD8d qzXzIUbHswHryBtMR+k1CHWdau0flnjmhhbu940M3jazJZkRe0yhvrqT0OAJhrH+9Vbr 5xKbOieBsB2DC36eTNavqaZHt9K+B1Vo+JW8JptWfdE+71f5NWxmqws5jVrsRm8NMacG riXLJ5FIiJNCvll/hBeSuZZ5oDesDvvTbN+8RhXkN6GvMZSJj9fkb0o9vEOUrNihwSLN a9VQ71o1VOn2O7uPs0ETFuMzhEDdZIijGOc9AYJPVeAVQYIt3MocVboz2L+zsqH+wzXr RETA== X-Received: by 10.68.22.73 with SMTP id b9mr2396507pbf.214.1363238086488; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [147.2.147.112] ([61.14.130.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xc4sm1449746pbc.41.2013.03.13.22.14.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:14:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1363236047.97499.YahooMailNeo@web120402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.50 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:15902 Archived-At: On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:40 -0700, Mike Gran wrote: > Hello. > > There seem to be four ways to force an exit. > > In boot-9, a function `quit' is defined. It appears in the manual, > but, in boot-9 it can take an argument. In the manual it never > takes an argument. > > In boot-9, `exit' is aliased to quit. In the manual `exit' is > > undocumented; however, in the documentation in (rnrs programs), > it notes that (rnrs programs)'s version of exit is the same > as the "core" version of exit. > > And then there is primitive-exit and primitive-_exit, which are > described in the manual. > > So clearly, there's some confusion here. Are 'quit' and 'exit' > supposed to be API? Is the fact that they can take an argument > supposed to be documented? > > Or is 'primitive-exit' the generally the way to go? > > [Out of topic] Many cool things in Guile lacks of document, maybe I should drop to look forward to adding new features to Guile but do some help for manual first... > Thanks, > > Mike > >