>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime E Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> writes:
Jaime> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 21:25 -0500, Raymond Toy wrote:
Robert> Looking at the script, it looks like it doesn't distinguish
Robert> arguments meant for Maxima from arguments meant for Lisp.
Robert> Maybe Lisp arguments could be preceded by -X or something,
Robert> so for -nositeinit it would be -Xnositeinit and it would
Robert> be handled differently. Just a thought.
>>
>> I was thinking more along the lines of -X "-nositeinit -this-option
>> -that-option". Yes, the user would have to quote it, but then maxima
>> wouldn't have to know about if the option for Lisp implementation X is
>> --nositeinit or -nositeinit or +nositeint, or whatever.
Jaime> I would recommend using a syntax that is often used in Linux:
Jaime> maxima -l cmucl -u 5.10.0 -- -nositeinit -this-option -that-option
Jaime> any options after "--" would be passed to lisp.
Yes, this is also a good idea.
Ray