Re: program-arguments

[Rob Browning]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, but there was no conclusion yet.  With the 'trick' to apply set-cdr!
> or set-car! to the return value of program-arguments, you can modify
> everything behind the first pair, but you can not change the first pair
> itself.  The latter would require some set-program-arguments! function.
> But, if we provide such a function, it seems more natural to make this
> function the only 'official' way to change the program arguments.  Such a
> solution is cleaner anyway, because set-program-arguments! could do some
> argument checking and make sure that the program arguments are always a
> list of strings.

Definitely.

By bringing this up, what I had meant was "This is yet another reason
we probably shouldn't go ahead and document/make-official the fact
that things like set-cdr work.".  So we're in agreement.

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930