Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar"))

[tomas]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:41:05AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> At Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:13:11 -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> > 
> > Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > >> Nope, system* would be perfectly fine with me too.
> > >
> > > That's what I prefer as well.
> > 
> > So would we want (system* . args) or (system* arg-list)?
> 
> FWIW, MzScheme made the same choice of the name system* and uses
> (system* . args)
> 
> Chicken uses (system* fmt . args) => (system (apply format fmt args))

I'd prefer (systems . args) too, but I've stirred up enough already ;-)

Cheers
-- tomas