Re: Running non-scheme scripts: some thoughts

[Krister Svanlund <krister.svanlund@gmail.com>]

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Personally I would think that having Guile guess by extension would be the,
in most cases, most reliable. Otherwise there could be problems loading
several files in different languages etc.

I would think that one of the best solution would be to have a switch to
execute arbitrary commands such as ,L so you would call guile with `guile
--switch ",L elisp"`. The separate executables could then be done as
aliases if one wanted.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apgwoz@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Though guile is really a multi-language vm, it does not provide a simple
> > way to run scripts for languages other scheme from the command line. I
> > think we should add a --language switch that takes a mandatory argument,
> > and use that to determine the language.
>
> Seems smarter to just have different executables:
>
>     guile (and guile-scheme for completeness via hard/soft link)
>     guile-elisp
>     ...
>     guile-LANG
>
> That seems like it'd lead to far less confusion overall.
>
> Andrew
>
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