[Openmcl-devel] TIL how to access command line arguments in a saved application

[Ron Garret]

Today I tried this:

[ron at mighty:~]$ ccl
Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.9-dev-r15341M-trunk  (DarwinX8664)!
? (defun foo () (print CCL:*UNPROCESSED-COMMAND-LINE-ARGUMENTS*) (print 'foo))
FOO
? (save-application #P"~/foo" :prepend-kernel t :toplevel-function 'foo)
[ron at mighty:~]$ ./foo baz bar -- bing boff

NIL 
FOO 

Not the result I was expecting.  So I dug around in the sources and discovered that the way to access command line arguments in your own top-level function is through the global variable *command-line-argument-list*.

FYI.

rg