From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@fabula.de Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar")) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:31:42 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20031030103141.GA32465@www> References: <87ad7l9i8h.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87y8v4ywap.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87he1s81g6.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <877k2nykso.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87ism7wlhq.wl@strelka.synthcode.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067514357 597 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 11:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 12:45:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFBFP-0003zH-01 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:45:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFBBN-0001JT-QL for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFB5S-00075S-6Q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:35:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFB4n-0006gA-Kq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:35:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.22.192.104] (helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFB4e-0006EI-9u for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:34:44 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 5002) id 6B39614079; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:31:42 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Alex Shinn Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ism7wlhq.wl@strelka.synthcode.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2935 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2935 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:41:05AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote: > At Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:13:11 -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > > > > Marius Vollmer writes: > > > > >> Nope, system* would be perfectly fine with me too. > > > > > > That's what I prefer as well. > > > > So would we want (system* . args) or (system* arg-list)? > > FWIW, MzScheme made the same choice of the name system* and uses > (system* . args) > > Chicken uses (system* fmt . args) => (system (apply format fmt args)) I'd prefer (systems . args) too, but I've stirred up enough already ;-) Cheers -- tomas _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel