Re: s48_extract_string?

Donald Allen <[email protected]> writes:

> So in "Command Programs", commands, normally typed at the REPL in ",command
> args" syntax are now in s-exp syntax and s-expressions need to be wrapped in
> run in order to be evaluated properly? When there's REPL code that already
> distinguishes quite nicely between commands and s-expressions? Why wasn't
> the latter used to read from a file, so that "command programs" would have
> the same syntax as accepted by the REPL, instead of introducing this grossly
> underdocumented new command language?

For that, you'll have to ask Jonathan :-)

> I'll be happy to give you what I have once I've finished and debugged it,
> but I question whether it will be useful to you. First of all, I decided to
> use the old FFI, because it's documented (something is better than nothing)
> and mature and embedded in a released version of S48. I am not going to be
> writing that much code that it will be difficult to move it to the new FFI
> when it appears in a released version. Secondly, the code I am writing is
> fairly specific to my application's PostgreSQL needs; it is not designed to
> be and it is not a general PostgreSQL interface. But having said that, you
> are welcome to my code when it's finished.

I'd appreciate it!

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