Re: [Chicken-users] command-line-arguments

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:04:13PM +0200, Wietse Jacobs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've put the following in a file and compiled it with chicken:
> 
> (begin
>   (display (command-line-arguments))
>   (exit))
> 
> when I run this with:
> test.exe "1 argument"
> I get:
> (1 argument)
> 
> But this looks like a list of 2 arguments where I expected 1. Am I
> missing something?

That's (kind of) a limitation of how 'display' works.
#;1> (display (list "foo" "bar"))
(foo bar)

Instead, you want:
#;2> (printf "~S" (list "foo" "bar"))
("foo" "bar")

> (I'm on windows XP, Chicken Version 3.0.0 - windows-mingw32-x86)
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> -- 
> --Wietse

Cheers,
Peter
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