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-rw-r--r--ell.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index d4c9412..c091259 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Runtime
-------
Variables use per-block dynamic scoping. Arguments to a block (which is a list
of lists) are assigned to local variables named `1`, `2`, etc., and the full
-list of them is stored in `*`.
+list of them is stored in `args`.
When evaluating a command, the first argument is typically a string with its
name and it is resolved as if `set` was called on it.
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Install development packages for GNU Readline to get a REPL for toying around:
Possible Ways of Complicating
-----------------------------
- * `local [_a _b _rest] @*` would elegantly solve the problem of varargs,
+ * `local [_a _b _rest] @args` would elegantly solve the problem of varargs,
that is, unpack a list when names are list, and make the last element a list
when there are more arguments than names
* reference counting: currently all values are always copied as needed, which
diff --git a/ell.c b/ell.c
index fdade77..a3a6e34 100644
--- a/ell.c
+++ b/ell.c
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ execute_statement
static bool
args_to_scope (struct context *ctx, struct item *args, struct item **scope) {
if (!check (ctx, (args = new_list (args)))
- || !scope_prepend (ctx, scope, "*", args))
+ || !scope_prepend (ctx, scope, "args", args))
return false;
size_t i = 0;