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From: tomas@fabula.de
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar"))
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:58:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031029075841.GA27407@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ad7l9i8h.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:15:26PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> I've just finished adding support for calling (system cmd) with a list
[...]
> This idea was borrowed from perl, [...]

If I get you right, you duplicate Perl's magic: when the arg is
a singleton, use system() (with all the shell implications), when
it's a list use execlp etc.

While I have no issues with that (on the contrary, I think those
things are quite handy in a scripting tool!), it ``sticks out''
a bit in Scheme. I'd expect `system' to be system(), and a function
by another name to do the magic you describe. Why not system* or
somesuch? (doing the single-element/several-element magic).

If I got you right, that is.

Regards
-- tomas


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-29  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-28 21:15 Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar")) Rob Browning
2003-10-28 22:13 ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-29  7:58 ` tomas [this message]
2003-10-29 13:58 ` Greg Troxel
2003-10-29 14:04   ` Rob Browning
2003-10-29 16:15     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-29 18:13       ` Rob Browning
2003-10-29 22:32         ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-30  1:41         ` Alex Shinn
2003-10-30 10:31           ` tomas
2003-10-30 20:09   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31  5:51     ` Rob Browning
2003-10-31 17:05       ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 17:47         ` Rob Browning
2003-10-31 17:59           ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 20:15             ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 20:31               ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 21:00                 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 21:18                   ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 21:48                     ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 22:10                       ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 22:26                         ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 22:42                           ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 22:50                         ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 22:59                           ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 23:25                             ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 23:34                               ` Paul Jarc
2003-11-02 21:13                                 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-11-10 19:25                                   ` Paul Jarc
2003-12-16 23:45                                     ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 22:49               ` Jonathan Bartlett
2003-10-31 20:19       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-31 20:37         ` Paul Jarc
2003-10-31 21:02           ` Rob Browning

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