On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:04:13PM +0200, Wietse Jacobs wrote: > Hello, > > I've put the following in a file and compiled it with chicken: > > (begin > (display (command-line-arguments)) > (exit)) > > when I run this with: > test.exe "1 argument" > I get: > (1 argument) > > But this looks like a list of 2 arguments where I expected 1. Am I > missing something?
That's (kind of) a limitation of how 'display' works.
#;1> (display (list "foo" "bar"))
(foo bar)
Instead, you want:
#;2> (printf "~S" (list "foo" "bar"))
("foo" "bar")
> (I'm on windows XP, Chicken Version 3.0.0 - windows-mingw32-x86)
>
> Thanks for your time,
> --
> --Wietse
Cheers,
Peter
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