[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] String exit codes should be allowed

[John Cowan]

Submitter: John Cowan
Email address: cowan at ccil.org
Issue type: Defect
Priority: Minor
Component: Scripts
Report version: 5.91
Summary:  String exit codes should be allowed

In the Plan 9 and Limbo operating systems, process exit codes are
strings.  Furthermore, in Posix systems, the legal exit codes are
the exact integers 0-255 rather than any exact integer; on VMS,
IIRC, any 32-bit non-negative integer is allowed.

Scheme should allow scripts to return any externally representable
value, with a note that the external environment will probably only be
able to handle a limited range of values.

This affects section 7 (p. 26).

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