From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ',run' and ',!'
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:03:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP9bCMS_YcWVEwxbmyURdBOR84NkBk32_Y5-ZnQ8pJAQ9F5tqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9cgu2lt.fsf@pobox.com>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following up after a loooong time --
>
> On Fri 12 Apr 2013 01:55, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 11 April 2013 13:37, Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, what do you think [about ,run and ,!]?
>>>
>>> This is the sort of thing that belongs in a .guile rather than in
>>> guile IMO.
>>>
>>
>> Right, and since you can already do this with more control via the
>> posix interface, adding this 'shortcut' to the repl adds little in the
>> way of value.
>
> I'm not sure I agree. Anything a REPL command can do can also be done
> programmatically, so that's not really an argument against REPL
> commands. OTOH people find that the ability to shell out is useful --
> almost all language shells have such a thing. I think such a feature
> could have a place in Guile proper.
fwiw, I use ! in gdb all the time.
I would find ,! in guile's repl very useful myself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-23 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-11 4:05 [PATCH] Add ',run' and ',!' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-11 5:37 ` Ian Price
2013-04-11 23:55 ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-04-12 6:29 ` Nala Ginrut
2013-04-12 7:50 ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-04-12 9:37 ` Nala Ginrut
2013-04-12 14:38 ` Ian Price
2013-04-12 23:45 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2014-03-23 19:38 ` Andy Wingo
2014-03-23 20:03 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2013-04-12 8:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-12 23:52 ` Nikita Karetnikov
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