Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Adding (system->string) somewhere

[John Cowan]

Ivan Shmakov scripsit:

>       Believe me or not, but the POSIX Shell behaves exactly that way.

Sensibly so: what you get is a newline-separated list of lines,
with no random empty line at the end to confuse matters.

>       I'm not sure that one should mimic the Shell behaviour in
>       Scheme, though.

Well, the alternative is to return a Scheme list of newline-free
lines.

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