From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: guile -s is it necessary?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:28:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3elak8in1.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ptu5uhof.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org> (ruhl@4dv.net's message of "20 Oct 2002 11:46:40 -0600")
ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>) wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> program will use it. If -s is optional, the programmer will be
>> tempted to use the plain "guile $script_name" form, which will be
>> buggy if script_name can start with "-".
>
> Granted--but the same problem exists with everyone else.
Right, but I don't think adding to the problem is useful.
> No sense being gratuitously incompatible.
It's not an incompatibility; it's a dissimilarity. No help being
gratuitously similar. The current behavior of requiring -s breaks
nothing; it's merely unexpected by people accustomed to sloppier
interfaces of other interpreters.
> And of course the wise programmer would write "guile --
> $script_name" (or whatever).
Only if they didn't want to run the script.
paul
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-15 12:21 guile -s is it necessary? tomas
2002-10-15 21:40 ` Rob Browning
2002-10-15 21:46 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-16 19:27 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-18 19:04 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-16 7:51 ` tomas
2002-10-15 22:36 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-18 19:07 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-18 22:06 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-19 4:40 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-18 22:07 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-19 10:53 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-19 11:21 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-20 17:45 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-10-21 5:13 ` Rob Browning
2002-10-21 14:41 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-10-20 21:11 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2002-10-21 5:32 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-19 19:41 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-20 16:13 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-20 17:46 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-10-21 5:28 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
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2002-10-25 15:04 Sven Hartrumpf
2002-10-25 20:43 ` Paul Jarc
2002-10-25 22:10 ` Rob Browning
2002-10-26 12:22 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-26 16:29 ` Rob Browning
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