Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT
Anthony Carrico
(24 Sep 2002 15:23 UTC)
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Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT
Robert Bruce Findler
(24 Sep 2002 15:37 UTC)
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Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT Anthony Carrico (24 Sep 2002 16:46 UTC)
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Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT
Robert Bruce Findler
(24 Sep 2002 17:07 UTC)
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Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT
Anthony Carrico
(25 Sep 2002 14:34 UTC)
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Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT
Anthony Carrico
(25 Sep 2002 15:13 UTC)
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Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT
Robert Bruce Findler
(25 Sep 2002 16:07 UTC)
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Re: cmdline.ss library in PLT Anthony Carrico 24 Sep 2002 16:49 UTC
I have briefly reviewed the cmdline.ss documentation. Let me say up front that there are a lot of ways to this job, and I doubt any way is perfect. My goal with args-fold was to provide a useful, generic, and flexible interface to the Posix/GNU guidelines in "the spirit of Scheme". Arguments could be made about my design choices from two directions: about the programmer's interface, about the user's interface. Here are my notes about cmdline.ss: 1. Cmdline seems to have a mandatory builtin help system. In args-fold, a help option in handled by the programmer like any other option. 2. Cmdline seems to support more than one argument per option. Args-fold supports 0 or 1 arguments per option, following the lead of POSIX/GNU guidelines. 3. At first, I thought it would be possible to implement cmdline in terms of args-fold, but I believe the cmdline interface requires a "procedure-arity" implementation. This is a clever trick that takes advantage plt-scheme, but I think it also prevents cmdline from being implemented on most other Scheme systems. -Anthony Carrico