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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: assume -s
Date: 30 Aug 2003 20:40:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37k4vgciw.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030829092031.S1440@netdot.net>

>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron VanDevender <sig@netdot.net> writes:

    Aaron> Ok, I've reworked it so that it doesn't duplicate code. I've
    Aaron> also changed the semantics *slightly*. In the old case, anything
    Aaron> that wasn't a recognized switch was treated as a SCRIPT. This
    Aaron> was, only things that don't begin with a '-' will be assumed as
    Aaron> a script. That way people won't rely on, for example, -a *not*
    Aaron> being a switch, invoking scheme -a, with -a being a script, and
    Aaron> then one day someone implementing the -a switch and breaking the
    Aaron> previous invocation. Its a long shot, (why would you ever want
    Aaron> to name a script -a?) better to be safe. The new patch also
    Aaron> updates the usage message.

Thanks.  This was discussed in October 2002 on the list, and there
seemed a pretty clear consensus in favour, so I'll apply this soon.

(One slight objection at that time was the risk of someone coding
"guile %s", and then someone else passing "-x" as the %s, and then
getting unexpected results; but this is addressed by your semantics as
described above.)

        Neil



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-30 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-28 13:32 PATCH: assume -s Aaron VanDevender
2003-08-29 10:38 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-08-29 13:20   ` Aaron VanDevender
2003-08-29 15:41     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-08-31 18:23       ` Marius Vollmer
2003-09-01  9:24         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-08-30 19:40     ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2003-08-30 20:00       ` Neil Jerram
2003-08-31 18:16         ` Marius Vollmer
2003-08-31 22:56           ` Neil Jerram
2003-09-03  1:54       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-09-03 23:17         ` Neil Jerram
2003-09-04  0:05           ` Kevin Ryde
2003-09-04 16:02             ` Paul Jarc
2003-09-05 18:22               ` Robert Uhl
2003-09-09 22:58               ` Kevin Ryde
2003-09-10 16:51                 ` Paul Jarc
2003-09-04 18:56             ` Neil Jerram

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