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Re: PATCH: assume -s
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Neil Jerram |
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Re: PATCH: assume -s |
Date: |
30 Aug 2003 20:40:07 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron VanDevender <address@hidden> writes:
Aaron> Ok, I've reworked it so that it doesn't duplicate code. I've
Aaron> also changed the semantics *slightly*. In the old case, anything
Aaron> that wasn't a recognized switch was treated as a SCRIPT. This
Aaron> was, only things that don't begin with a '-' will be assumed as
Aaron> a script. That way people won't rely on, for example, -a *not*
Aaron> being a switch, invoking scheme -a, with -a being a script, and
Aaron> then one day someone implementing the -a switch and breaking the
Aaron> previous invocation. Its a long shot, (why would you ever want
Aaron> to name a script -a?) better to be safe. The new patch also
Aaron> updates the usage message.
Thanks. This was discussed in October 2002 on the list, and there
seemed a pretty clear consensus in favour, so I'll apply this soon.
(One slight objection at that time was the risk of someone coding
"guile %s", and then someone else passing "-x" as the %s, and then
getting unexpected results; but this is addressed by your semantics as
described above.)
Neil