Re: [Bug-apl] Feature request: initial expression from command line

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi David,

good idea. I have called it --LX instead of --init because it is similar 
to ⎕LX.
The creation of a .log file for non-testcase (.tc) files was actually a 
fault that has been fixed.
SVN 332.

/// Jürgen


On 06/17/2014 07:18 AM, David B. Lamkins wrote:
> Feature request:
>
> Add a command-line option to pass a first command to the interpreter.
>
> For example:
>
> $ apl --init ')LOAD foo'
>
> Note the ways in which the example differs from $ apl -f foo.apl :
>
> - the file is loaded from the workspace directory
> - no foo.apl.log file is created
> - the contents of foo.apl are not echoed to the session during loading
>
> Alternative:
>
> There may be other uses for --init 'command', but )LOAD and )COPY are
> the most obvious. An alternative implementation would be to wire in just
> those two cases, as in:
>
> $ apl --load foo
> $ apl --copy foo
>
> Again, the file passed to --load or --copy would be resolved relative to
> the workspace (i.e. )LIB 0) path.