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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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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-21  5:28 UTC|newest]

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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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