Re: Running non-scheme scripts: some thoughts

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun 26 Aug 2012 23:16, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

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>>   guile -c '(display "good")' --language=ecmascript -c '2 + 2;'
>
> A first patch is attached.  It depends on fluid->parameter and
> current-language being a parameter, patches I will push soonish.
>
> Getting this right is a bit tricky.  First of all your example doesn't
> work because things stop after a "-c".

Right.

> In my attached patch, -c and -s respect the current language, but -l
> does not.  I have the feeling that we should lower `current-language'
> to boot-9, to allow some flexibility while avoiding loading up the
> compiler unless we have to.

Yes, I think we should do whatever it takes to have -l honor the current
language.

> Another thing is that --lang does not appear to set the language for the
> first REPL invocation.  We should fix that too, I suppose.

Agreed.

> Finally, -e uses the Scheme reader.  -e is a pretty strange argument
> anyway, but hey.

That’s probably OK.

> Thoughts?

Bikeshedding: I’d prefer --language.

Perhaps we could have a couple of tests for -c, for instance, as shell
scripts in test-suite/standalone?

Thanks!

Ludo’.