Re: primitive _exit

[Neil Jerram]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> The subject of _exit() as opposed to exit() has come up before.  I
> propose to add _exit as a `primitive-primitive-exit', so you can
> really get out of a process straight away, with no C or Scheme level
> stuff.  The docs would be per below, adding the existing but
> undocumented plain `exit' too.
>
> Not sure about the name primitive-primitive-exit.  It's pretty ugly,
> but something shorter like `_exit' would make the heirarchy of exits a
> lot less obvious.

How about primitive-_exit ?  It's a little odd, but I think will be
intuitive to anyone looking for _exit.  I know we don't conventionally
use underscores in Scheme, but I don't think doing so will break
anything.

The doc is great.

    Neil