On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:09:43AM +0200, Константин Бытенский wrote: > I wanted to use Picolisp as shell script languate and I didn’t find > out how to get exit status for "call". So I made this patch. I'm new > for Picolisp.
Right, the exit status is not stored anywhere. Maybe this is a design error, i.e. returning 'NIL' or a number from 'call' might have been a better choice. But changing this now would break existing programs. > Is this patch correct? What name is better for global "*ExitStat"? > > diff --git src64/flow.l src64/flow.l > index b28857e..9a72ddb 100644 > --- src64/flow.l > +++ src64/flow.l > @@ -3235,0 +3236,3 @@ > + shl A 4 # Make short number > + or A CNT > + ld (ExitStat) A > diff --git src64/glob.l src64/glob.l > index cbf718a..7e19b7c 100644 > --- src64/glob.l > +++ src64/glob.l > @@ -182,0 +183 @@ > + initSym ExitStat "*ExitStat" ZERO Yes, this is correct, and "*ExitStat" sounds suitable to me (though I would prefer shorter names for system symbols and longer ones for the application level). ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe
