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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "exec" procedures don't handle the optional parameters unbounded situation?
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:02:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r504unlx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPjoZoemjo7HArNgsBGFb2SUF+3RMtVm1XOoU+UF-ryh92fQnQ@mail.gmail.com> (Nala Ginrut's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:03:50 +0800")

Hello!

Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> skribis:

> Since Guile provides flexible optional arguments handling, why we can not
> do this:
> let (execlp "ls")  equal to (execlp "ls" "") if the second argument is
> unbounded?

Because it would differ from what the underlying system call allows, and
would also be an incompatible change.

Thanks,
Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-16 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23  9:24 "exec" procedures don't handle the optional parameters unbounded situation? Nala Ginrut
2011-12-15 19:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-12-16  4:03   ` Nala Ginrut
2011-12-16 23:02     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2011-12-17  4:34       ` David Kastrup
2012-01-06 18:02     ` Andy Wingo

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