Re: [Chicken-users] ANN: eping

[Michele La Monaca]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:22 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Michele La Monaca scripsit:
>
>> Happy pinging.
>
> Cool!
>
> I made a minor documentation change on the wiki to encourage strings over
> symbols as hostnames, and to remove the suggestion to use dotted-decimal
> symbols like '192.168.1.1.  Such a symbol violates both R5RS and R7RS,
> is not portable, and might stop working some day.  (You could write it as
> '|192.168.1.1|, but that is more verbose than the string form.)

What about redefining eping as a macro to call the real eping function (_eping)?

(define-syntax eping
  (syntax-rules ()
    ((_ h p ...) (_eping (symbol->string '|h|) 'p ...))))

This way you can simply:

(eping 192.168.1.1)

or

(eping example.com)

Thoughts?

Ciao,
Michele