On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Following up after a loooong time -- > > On Fri 12 Apr 2013 01:55, Daniel Hartwig <mand...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 11 April 2013 13:37, Ian Price <ianpric...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> So, what do you think [about ,run and ,!]? >>> >>> This is the sort of thing that belongs in a .guile rather than in >>> guile IMO. >>> >> >> Right, and since you can already do this with more control via the >> posix interface, adding this 'shortcut' to the repl adds little in the >> way of value. > > I'm not sure I agree. Anything a REPL command can do can also be done > programmatically, so that's not really an argument against REPL > commands. OTOH people find that the ability to shell out is useful -- > almost all language shells have such a thing. I think such a feature > could have a place in Guile proper.
fwiw, I use ! in gdb all the time. I would find ,! in guile's repl very useful myself.
