I'm using (ice-9 getopt-long) with Guile 2.0.11.
The documentation (<URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/htm
l_node/getopt_002dlong-Reference.html#getopt_002dlong-Reference>)
states:
getopt-long signals an error if [...]
A required option is omitted.
The leading comment in the source file is even more explicit:
;;; `getopt-long' throws an exception if:
[...]
;;; - a required option is omitted
However, in reality, no exception is thrown. Instead, (getopt-long)
writes an English error message to stderr and calls (exit 1).
I would much prefer the documented behavior. A library function should
neither write to a file nor exit the program unless explicitly requested
by the caller.
Marko
