Hi Alexej, My tuppence:
On 2015-01-27 4:01, Alexej Magura wrote: > I don't think I'll use the toplevel-command stuff after all: I can't promise > that the toplevel symbols readline exports won't get overwritten, and I'm > not entirely sure readline has any business providing private toplevel > symbols that are only applicable to it. It might confuse less-experienced > users*, for one, and for another there's the already mentioned possibility > of symbol collision, unless somebody more knowledge on this subject can > prove otherwise. It's your call of course, but I'd urge you not to let this stop you if you'd otherwise like to provide this feature. If all commands are prefixed by "rl", for example, the ease of use would outweight any risk of conflicts, IMO. After all, extensions are expected to provide commands; that's part of what the feature's there for. chicken-doc uses it to great effect, for example. Perhaps you could address the concern that users will mistake readline-provided commands for builtins by adding a note that they come from the readline egg to the commands' help strings? Cheers, Evan _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
