Re: CLI reorganization revisited

[swedebugia]

On 2018-11-08 23:46, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:

I do not understand how args work. Is this documented somewhere?

Also I do not understand this form:

(define (guix-describe . args)
                   ^
What is the role of the dot?

The dot serve as a separator between 'required' argument and 'rest' arguments which is always a list that might be empty.

In the above case everything passed to the procedure guix-describe is considered part of args.

Thank you!

I just saw that GNU Scheme implemented that as keyword: #optional!

This is more clear for the reader/beginner actually. ;-)

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