On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:22 PM, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Michele La Monaca scripsit:
>
>> Happy pinging.
>
> Cool!
>
> I made a minor documentation change on the wiki to encourage strings over
> symbols as hostnames, and to remove the suggestion to use dotted-decimal
> symbols like '192.168.1.1. Such a symbol violates both R5RS and R7RS,
> is not portable, and might stop working some day. (You could write it as
> '|192.168.1.1|, but that is more verbose than the string form.)
What about redefining eping as a macro to call the real eping function (_eping)?
(define-syntax eping
(syntax-rules ()
((_ h p ...) (_eping (symbol->string '|h|) 'p ...))))
This way you can simply:
(eping 192.168.1.1)
or
(eping example.com)
Thoughts?
Ciao,
Michele
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