Re: guile -s is it necessary?

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden (Robert Uhl <address@hidden>) wrote:
> address@hidden (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