A not quite stylish proposal for command line processing

[David Kastrup]

How about
(defun *argv++ nil (pop command-line-args-left))
?

It would allow to write

emacs --eval '(ediff-files (*argv++) (*argv++))' "$FILE1" "$FILE2"

instead of the much more tedious explicit variant.  Note that

emacs --eval "(ediff-files \"$FILE1\" \"$FILE2\")"

is _not_ equivalent since it requires $FILE1 to be properly quoted for
appearing inside of a Lisp string.

Somewhat more Lispish would be
(defvaralias 'argv 'command-line-args-left)
which would at least permit
emacs --eval '(ediff-files (pop argv) (pop argv))' "$FILE1" "$FILE2"

And it is more likely to be found by programmers using "apropos".  And
is actually only one character longer than the *argv++ cuteness.

Comments?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum