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Re: Meaning of "~@" in the format procedure


From: zimoun
Subject: Re: Meaning of "~@" in the format procedure
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:34:20 +0200

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 18:16, André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see that "~@" is used frequently in Guix' codebase in the format
> procedure but I don't understand what it does.  (info "(guile) Formatted
> Output") didn't help much.

I think it is for multilines.

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> emacs "$@" --eval 'a-sexp'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It is for a shell.  It means all the arguments.


Hope that helps,
simon



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