Hello all, Like many of you, I am enamored of the "git style" of command line interfaces: "git add this", "git commit that", etc.
Guile has guile-tools, which, though not well documented, does support this. "guile-tools compile foo" loads the `(scripts compile)' module, and punts argument processing out to it. But guile-tools is really a verbose name, and it doesn't read well. I propose renaming it to "guile do", spelled "guido". As in, "guido compile foo". It has the nice mnemonic value, and it's also a name in some places, so it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: "Guido, compile my-file.scm." "Waiter, bring the wind list." Then if we get a CPAN, it will add guido commands by defining (scripts ...) modules. "guido update". "guido install". "guido upgrade". And so on. We'll have to improve the default help that guile-tools gives, of course. What think ye? Of course we'd keep around the "guile-tools" binary for some years yet. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
