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Re: [Chicken-users] readline egg v2.0 feedback

From: Shawn Rutledge
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] readline egg v2.0 feedback
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:10:31 +0100
On 26 January 2015 at 00:02, Matt Welland <address@hidden> wrote:
> From http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Using%20the%20interpreter the ,commands are called "toplevel commands" and you can define them with:
>
> (toplevel-command SYMBOL PROC [HELPSTRING])

Where does this tradition come from?  Is it related somehow to the use of the comma as unquote inside a quasiquote?  It always seems unintuitive to me to start anything with a comma.

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