[cmucl-imp] Re: Would ext:exit be a good addition?

[Raymond Toy]

On 1/29/10 2:12 PM, Carl Shapiro wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com
> <mailto:toy.raymond at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     How about overloading recklessly-p to include the exit code?  If
>     recklessly-p is a negative integer, do a reckless exit with and exit
>     code of the absolute value of the code.  If it's a positive integer,
>     carefully exit with the given code.
>
>
> These kinds of ugly interfaces should be limited to Emacs Lisp.  If
> this had to change, and its not clear that it does, maybe adding
> keywords would be somewhat cleaner?
I think the intent was something short and simple.  If this is not clean
enough, then perhaps (quite &optional recklessly-p (exit-code 0)) would
be somewhat nicer, and fully backward compatible.

Ray

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