Re: Running non-scheme scripts: some thoughts

[Krister Svanlund]

Personally I would think that having Guile guess by extension would be the, in most cases, most reliable. Otherwise there could be problems loading several files in different languages etc.

I would think that one of the best solution would be to have a switch to execute arbitrary commands such as ,L so you would call guile with `guile --switch ",L elisp"`. The separate executables could then be done as aliases if one wanted.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Ian Price <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Though guile is really a multi-language vm, it does not provide a simple
> way to run scripts for languages other scheme from the command line. I
> think we should add a --language switch that takes a mandatory argument,
> and use that to determine the language.

Seems smarter to just have different executables:

    guile (and guile-scheme for completeness via hard/soft link)
    guile-elisp
    ...
    guile-LANG

That seems like it'd lead to far less confusion overall.

Andrew

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