From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Shinn Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar")) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:41:05 +0900 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ism7wlhq.wl@strelka.synthcode.com> References: <87ad7l9i8h.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87y8v4ywap.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87he1s81g6.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <877k2nykso.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067480499 4572 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 02:21:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 03:21:37 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 1AF2RN-0006d1-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:21:37 +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 1AF2RK-0005iv-St for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF1zC-0001Ta-3q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:52:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF1sc-0007NP-3B for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:46:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [210.190.172.57] (helo=mail17d.wh.ocn.ne.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AF1sP-0007K4-Uo for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from www.technowing.com (61.112.39.109) by mail17d.wh.ocn.ne.jp (RS ver 1.0.81vs) with SMTP id 3-01500304508318 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:45:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=strelka.synthcode.com ident=foof) by strelka.synthcode.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF1oA-00010f-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:41:06 +0900 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <877k2nykso.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) Emacs/21.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Loop-Detect: 1 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:2934 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2934 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)) -- Alex _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel