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Shen-Language / shen-cl

Shen for Common Lisp (Unmaintained)
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add '--quiet' flag that sets *hush* to true #3

Closed tizoc closed 7 years ago

tizoc commented 7 years ago

A bit unsure about this one, but may help users that want to write scripts until we have a proper non-interactive execution mode.

rkoeninger commented 7 years ago

Does *hush* disable all output or just load/eval output?

One could easily want to run a Shen program suppressing only the output from load/eval and still see what output/print write.

tizoc commented 7 years ago

It disables everything except pr. It is not well designed, it is too aggressive and was introduced by Mark a while ago just as a quick solution to a request made by Ramil to disable reporting output from the runtime. I don't like it, but It is something that is there as a quick workaround and that is part of the system already (it is even documented in shendoc).

I don't think it is very useful in its current form, but maybe we could change its meaning in the kernel to something more useful (basically your PR here https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/pull/42 but using the *hush* variable instead of a new echo mode).