Re: Trouble using (current-filename)

[Noah Lavine]

Hello,

What ever happened to this issue? Is it considered resolved now, or is
there more to do?

And if it's not resolved, what do people think of having more than one
piece of syntax?

Noah

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hi Neil!
>>
>> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Perhaps after all the right thing, for my use case, is something based
>>> on (car (command-line)) and (getcwd).  I currently have this
>>> 'compatibility definition' for Guile 1.8.x:
>>>
>>>       (define (current-filename)
>>>      (let* ((script (car (command-line)))
>>>             (scriptdir (dirname script))
>>>             (absdir (cond ((string=? scriptdir ".")
>>>                            (getcwd))
>>>                           ((string-match "^/" scriptdir)
>>>                            scriptdir)
>>>                           (else
>>>                            (in-vicinity (getcwd) scriptdir)))))
>>>        (in-vicinity scriptdir (basename script))))
>>>
>>> But maybe that's the better solution for 2.x as well.
>>
>> Yes, for that case, you definitely want something that happens at
>> run-time, pretty much like $ORIGIN in ELF files.
>
> OK thanks.  I think that means you can disregard my use case when
> considering the future of 'current-filename', then.
>
>       Neil
>