Re: RFC: major change to argument processing.

[Rob Browning]

"Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:

> I agree.  I'm just saying people will be confused when they find their
> assumptions to be untrue.  I bet people will even try to use $-variables
> inside double-quoted strings, expecting environment variables to be
> substituted into those positions.

Yeah I worried about that too.  We kinda look like we're advertizing a
functionality that doesn't really exist.

However, the "use read and throw back everything that's not a string"
approach, unless you're going to have a special case for args that
start with dashes means that you'll be choosing a backward
incompatible strategy.  Every script already out there will break
because the option args will have to be quoted too:

  #!/usr/bin/guile \
  "-l" "/foo/bar.scm"
  "-s"
  !#

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