On 17 Apr 1997 23:51:40 -0400, Olin Shivers
<shivers@lambda.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>I would suggest that you'd be better off sticking with a classic
>shell-like syntax for the common, everyday issuing of commands, not
>simply punting the outer layer of parens. Globbing, for example, is
>an important interface between the filesytem and the command line arguments
>given to programs. This is built in to the syntax of typical interactive
>shells.
But how about (glob <filespec>), which returns a list of string
filenames...
(cat "alaric.txt")
(cat . (glob "*.txt"))
Saves all that messiness of escape codes and so on!
ABW
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