Re: On quitting and exiting

[Nala Ginrut]

On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:40 -0700, Mike Gran wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> There seem to be four ways to force an exit.
> 
> In boot-9, a function `quit' is defined.  It appears in the manual,
> but, in boot-9 it can take an argument.  In the manual it never
> takes an argument.
> 
> In boot-9, `exit' is aliased to quit.  In the manual `exit' is 
> 
> undocumented; however, in the documentation in (rnrs programs),
> it notes that (rnrs programs)'s version of exit is the same
> as the "core" version of exit.
> 
> And then there is primitive-exit and primitive-_exit, which are
> described in the manual.
> 
> So clearly, there's some confusion here.  Are 'quit' and 'exit'
> supposed to be API?  Is the fact that they can take an argument
> supposed to be documented?
> 
> Or is 'primitive-exit' the generally the way to go? 
> 
> 

[Out of topic]
Many cool things in Guile lacks of document, maybe I should drop to look
forward to adding new features to Guile but do some help for manual
first...


> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
>