Re: RFC: major change to argument processing.

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> But now I have the double/single quote multi-line parser working, so
> you can say:
> 
>   #!/home/rlb/opt/guile-w-scmscript/bin/guile \
>   -x '(display "He\\\\llo\\n")'

Hmm, on a sh command line that would be

    guile -x '(display "He\\lo\n")'

Single quotes in sh do not do any `\' processing between them.

>   -x '(display "Show a double quote: \\\" \\n")'

Or

    -x '(display "Show a double quote: \" \n")'

> So now I'm tempted to update docs for this new meta-arg syntax and
> for "-x" and to commit the changes.  Should I?

Yes, from my view preferably with the simplified single quoting
syntax.