Re: RFC: major change to argument processing.

[Dirk Herrmann]

On 1 Jun 2001, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> 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")'

Well, I am still not sure it is worth the additional effort to emulate
shell behaviour... :-|

Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann