[Newbies] Passing arguments to squeak image
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu May 17 12:53:30 UTC 2007
On May 17, 2007, at 14:45 , subbukk wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 4:38 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> You can pass an empty argument as first option after the image name
>> followed by your other arguments, or deactivate the launcher in your
>> image.
> squeak squeak.image /dev/null arg1 bag arg2 of arg3 of chips
> results in error[1]. But
> squeak squeak.image '' arg1 .....
> and then printing "SmalltalkImage current extractParameters" gives:
> a Dictionary('ARG1'->'bag' 'ARG2'->'of' 'ARG3'->'chips' )
>
> The first case fails because String>>unzipped doesn't check for
> isEmptyOrNil
> on self. With the patch:
> self isEmptyOrNil ifTrue: [^''].
>
> the first line works as expected.
The first case should not fail silently. The error is on purpose
(though it might be more meaningful).
- Bert -
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