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From: Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: CLI reorganization revisited
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 23:46:07 +0100
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>
> I do not understand how args work. Is this documented somewhere?
>
> Also I do not understand this form:
>
> (define (guix-describe . args)
>                    ^
> What is the role of the dot?
>


The dot serve as a separator between 'required' argument and 'rest'
arguments which is always a list that might be empty.
In the above case everything passed to the procedure guix-describe is
considered part of args.

HTH

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I do not understand how args work. Is this documented somewhere?<br>
<br>
Also I do not understand this form:<br>
<br>
(define (guix-describe . args)<br>
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=
=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 ^<br>
What is the role of the dot?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>=
<div>The dot serve as a separator between &#39;required&#39; argument and &=
#39;rest&#39; arguments which is always a list that might be empty. <br></d=
iv><div>In the above case everything passed to the procedure guix-describe =
is considered part of args.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH</div></div></div>

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