Re: "exec" procedures don't handle the optional parameters unbounded situation?

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello!
>
> Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Since Guile provides flexible optional arguments handling, why we can not
>> do this:
>> let (execlp "ls")  equal to (execlp "ls" "") if the second argument is
>> unbounded?
>
> Because it would differ from what the underlying system call allows, and
> would also be an incompatible change.

Incompatible?  You really think there are programs relying on this being
an error?  I agree that a system call wrapper should not be too clever,
but compatibility is hardly a concern here.

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David Kastrup