From: Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: string-append *IS* broken!!!
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:30:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF234AD.525AFB1F@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3FF22FAA.FD22BC73@veritas.com
Who in heck told string-append it "okay" to not do its job if the
first string appeared to be quoted? That is utterly disgusting
and completely counter-intuitive. How can you do that? That
function has absolutely *NO* business trying to understand the
contents of the strings I want to concatenate together.
Bruce Korb wrote:
>
> Why is this code "wrong"?
>
> > (string-append (c-string (get "name")) ", ")
>
> As an experiment, I did this:
>
> (define c-str (c-string (get "name")))
> (shellf "echo 'c-str is set to -->%s<--' >&2" c-str)
> (set! c-str (string-append c-str ", "))
> (shellf "echo 'c-str is set to -->%s<--' >&2" c-str)
>
> Here is the result:
>
> autogen -T getopt.tpl getpwnam-opts.def
> c-str is set to -->"name"<--
> c-str is set to -->"name"<--
> c-str is set to -->"passwd"<--
> c-str is set to -->"passwd"<--
> c-str is set to -->"uid"<--
> c-str is set to -->"uid"<--
> c-str is set to -->"gname"<--
> c-str is set to -->"gname"<--
>
> This works:
>
> (sprintf "%s, " (c-string (get "name")))
>
> but should not be any different.....Am I confused or is this a bug?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-31 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 2:08 Is string-append broken? Bruce Korb
2003-12-31 2:30 ` Bruce Korb [this message]
2003-12-31 8:57 ` string-append *IS* broken!!! Marius Vollmer
2003-12-31 23:41 ` string-append is *NOT* broken!!! Bruce Korb
2003-12-31 8:56 ` Is string-append broken? Marius Vollmer
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