Arguments parsing in Guile

While Guile Scheme has a lot of hidden gems, like (ice-9 peg) , parsing command line arguments is not one of its strengths in my opinion. Even if there are many powerful approaches to structured argument parsing, there is no API simple enough for me to know it by heart (as opposed for example to Python ArgumentParser ). In this post, I will analyze some of what I believe to be shortcomings of…