Re: [Bug-apl] )host to take string

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi,

actually it should not. )HOST is a command so its arguments
are not computed (in GNU APL, but probably also others).

Thus  'workspaces/',a is passed verbatim to popen().

/// Jürgen


On 04/25/2014 11:10 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> presently )host takes direct code
>
>       )host vi workspaces/a1    works (disregard Vim: Warning: Output is not to a 
> terminal    using )host vi workspaces < `tty` > `tty` is the real command)
>
> putting it in quotes
>
>       )host vi 'workspaces/a1'    works
>
>       a←'a1'
>
>       'workspaces/', a
> workspaces/a1
>
> but
>        )host vi 'workspaces/',a
>
> edits  workspaces,a   not workspaces/a1 as it should
>
> is there a easy way around this or is it hard work to fix in the code?
>
>