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| -rw-r--r-- | README.adoc | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ell.c | 2 |
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 @@ -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; |