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Making the -e option compatible with new versions of Guile 1.4
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Marius Vollmer |
Subject: |
Making the -e option compatible with new versions of Guile 1.4 |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:33:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
For 1.7, I have made Guile's interpretation of the -e option
compatible with the behavior of ttn's Guile 1.4 series. When this
works out, I want to also install this in the 1.6 series.
What do you all think?
Here is the new documentation of -e:
`-e FUNCTION'
Make FUNCTION the "entry point" of the script. After loading the
script file (with `-s') or evaluating the expression (with `-c'),
apply FUNCTION to a list containing the program name and the
command-line arguments -- the list provided by the `command-line'
function.
A `-e' switch can appear anywhere in the argument list, but Guile
always invokes the FUNCTION as the _last_ action it performs.
This is weird, but because of the way script invocation works under
POSIX, the `-s' option must always come last in the list.
The FUNCTION is most often a simple symbol that names a function
that is defined in the script. It can also be of the form `(@
MODULE-NAME SYMBOL)' and in that case, the symbol is looked up in
the module named MODULE-NAME.
For compatibility with some versions of Guile 1.4, you can also
use the form `(symbol ...)' (that is, a list of only symbols),
which is equivalent to `(@ (symbol ...) main)', or `(symbol ...)
symbol' (that is, a list of only symbols followed by a symbol),
which is equivalent to `(@ (symbol ...) symbol)'. We recommend to
use the equivalent forms directly since they corresponf to the `(@
...)' read syntax that can be used in normal code, *Note Using
Guile Modules::.
*Note Scripting Examples::.
- Making the -e option compatible with new versions of Guile 1.4,
Marius Vollmer <=