Stig E. Sand� <stig@ii.uib.no> wrote:
+---------------
| Cren Q <cq@fd.com> wrote:
| >clisp foo.lsp '(a b)     	doesn't work.
| >how can I pass it a list like '(a b)?
...
| user::*args* is a list of the arguments given (last) on the
| command line. I think it is documented in implementation.html
+---------------

Yup, it's documented both in the man page and in more detail in the
implementation notes, "Extensions-2.8. Quickstarting delivery with CLISP":
http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/documentation/clisp/doc/clisp.html
http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/documentation/clisp/doc/impnotes.html#quickstart

But if he wants to end up with actual lists (or other Lisp forms), then
he probably also wants to use READ-FROM-STRING, since *ARGS* is a list of
strings, only. For example:

	% cat foo
	#!/usr/local/bin/clisp
	(mapc #'print
	  (mapcar #'eval
	    (mapcar #'read-from-string *args*)))
	% foo "'(a b)" "'(+ 23 45)" "(+ 23 45)"
	(A B)
	(+ 23 45) 
	68 
	% 


-Rob

p.s. If you can't use the "#!" hack for some reason,
it's also usable this way:

	% clisp foo "'(a b)" "'(+ 23 45)" "(+ 23 45)"
	(A B)
	(+ 23 45) 
	68 
	% 

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