Am 05.01.2018 um 09:19 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:

Thanks for your reply.

>> Does this take care of proper quoting the string-values?
> What string values do you refer to?  We first generate an S-expression
> (where we don’t need to take care of escaping things anyway) and then
> format it as a string (with “format” and the “~s” format string), and
> then we print that S-expression-as-a-string into a file.

I mean the values of the environment variables to be set, whcih might
contain double-quotes or backslashes.

But I understand that these values are calculated within guile anyway
and ~s takes care of proper quoting. So this is fine. Thanks for
elaborating.

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Hartmut Goebel

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