Review of first draft John Cowan (20 Apr 2020 14:11 UTC)
Re: Review of first draft Lassi Kortela (20 Apr 2020 15:02 UTC)
Re: Review of first draft Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (20 Apr 2020 15:19 UTC)
Re: Review of first draft Lassi Kortela (20 Apr 2020 15:35 UTC)
Re: Review of first draft Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (20 Apr 2020 15:45 UTC)
Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela (20 Apr 2020 16:01 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (20 Apr 2020 16:30 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela (20 Apr 2020 16:49 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input John Cowan (20 Apr 2020 17:36 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela (26 May 2020 12:38 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input John Cowan (26 May 2020 17:36 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela (26 May 2020 17:45 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input John Cowan (26 May 2020 17:52 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela (26 May 2020 18:06 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (26 May 2020 18:12 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela (26 May 2020 18:50 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Vladimir Nikishkin (27 May 2020 07:48 UTC)
Re: Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 08:07 UTC)
Re: Review of first draft John Cowan (20 Apr 2020 16:02 UTC)

Re: Loading code from standard input Lassi Kortela 26 May 2020 18:50 UTC

> R7RS top-level programs are just
> perfect to serve as scripts in the Unix sense.

It seems that way to me as well.

> Why standardizing "scripts" (commands read by load or a REPL) at all?
> The REPL is not really portable.

I guess it's nice if (load "foo.scm") and interpreting from stdin work
in a predictable manner. Though you're right that neither of those seem
preferred for real work, more for quick experiments.