Re: Would a patch to execute "startup configuration code" be welcome?

[thi]

   From: Rob Browning <address@hidden>
   Date: 13 Jan 2001 21:33:20 -0600

   One thing I've often wanted in guile is the ability to execute, from
   the command line, various bits of code, via multiple command line
   args, whose presence wouldn't have *any* effect on further option
   processing.

   The "-c" option isn't appropriate for this because only one -c is
   allowed, and when present causes guile to unavoidably quit after the
   given code is executed.

   The place this is particularly useful is if you want to create guile
   scripts that are customized in a particular way.  For example:

     #!/bin/sh
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/dir/with/sub-lib/needed/by/libcustomization.so
     exec guile \
           -??? '(set! %load-path (cons "somedir" %load-path))' \
           -??? '(use-modules (some special customization))' \
           -??? '(initialize-something-important)' \
           "$@"

   Would there be any interest in a patch to accomplish this, and if so,
   what character should ??? be?

for this example, the same effect can be achieved with:

#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/dir/with/sub-lib/needed/by/libcustomization.so
exec guile -s $0 "$@"
!#
(set! %load-path (cons "somedir" %load-path))
(use-modules (some special customization))
(initialize-something-important)
;;; eof

with less quoting hair.  does this work for you?

thi