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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: guile -s  is it necessary?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:07:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zntbmupe.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021015122146.GA418@www> (tomas@fabula.de's message of "Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:21:46 +0200")

tomas@fabula.de wrote:
> Is there any particular reason (besides of higher symmetry)
> you have to invoke a script as ``guile -s <script name>''
> instead of just ``guile <script name>''?

One might argue that someone invoking "guile foo" might have intended
"guile -- foo" instead of "guile -s foo", so "guile foo" is a bit
error-prone.  It's less likely that someone would accidentally supply
an explicit -s when they meant --.


paul


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-18 19:07 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 [this message]
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
  -- 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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