Re: SRFI-22 -- What won't work

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SRFI-22 -- What won't work shivers@xxxxxx (20 Mar 2001 18:01 UTC)

Re: SRFI-22 -- What won't work sperber@xxxxxx (20 Mar 2001 18:45 UTC)

Re: SRFI-22 -- What won't work Marc Feeley (20 Mar 2001 19:21 UTC)

Script names shivers@xxxxxx (20 Mar 2001 21:52 UTC)

Re: SRFI-22 -- What won't work sperber@xxxxxx (21 Mar 2001 08:13 UTC)

Re: SRFI-22 -- What won't work sperber@xxxxxx 21 Mar 2001 08:13 UTC

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Feeley <xxxxxx@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

Olin> Unfortunately, Marc, that won't work. It ought to, but it doesn't.
>>
>> Note that Marc was talking about an issue quite unrelated to what
>> you're talking about.

Marc> You are correct (although I had no idea a scripts interpreter can't be
Marc> a script...).

Olin> Let's see:
Olin> /usr/local/bin/scm-ieee-1178-90
Olin> That's 31 characters. Oops.
>>
Olin> My advice: make these program names *short* and highly coded
>>
>> Suggestion for this specific case?

Marc> Yes.  Forget about all the variants, call the executable "scheme" and
Marc> **require** that it support SRFI 0.

That's simply not a viable option for this SRFI.  If there were only
one, SRFI 7 would be a much better choice.

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