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I've a request for enhancement.

I like the DoItFirst package, but I think there should be -f option,
like in AWK to read from a source file.

For example:

bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -help           
DoItFirst image arguments:
	-doit argumentlist "evaluate each argument as a doIt expression"
	-evaluate arg "evaluate arg, print result then exit"
	-filein filelist "file in each file named in fileList"
	-cwd path "set FileDirectory defaultDirectory to path prior to evaluating other options"
	-debug "enter a debugger as soon as possible in the startUp processing"
	-help "print this message"

bash-4.4$ cat loop.st 
|cltn index|
cltn _ OrderedCollection new.
index _ 1.
[index <= 10] whileTrue: [cltn add: index. index _ index + 1].
cltn

bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -evaluate "`cat loop.st`"
an OrderedCollection(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)

What I'd propose is to add a -f which is like -evaluate and the 'cat'.

bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -f loop.st
an OrderedCollection(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)

As far as I can see the DoItFirst package does not have this, because -filein
is not quite the same.

When I try
bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -filein loop.st          

that doesn't work.  So a -f option would be nice, 
or is there a solution that I don't see ?

Also a short name like -c or -e as a shortcut for -evaluate would be nice.

In any case, I've tried DoItFirst both with the squeak-4 from subversion,
and the squeak-5 from OpenSmalltalk (Cog VM and Stack VM release 5.0 with
Squeak6.0alpha images) and the DoItFirst package seems to work fine.

Regards,
David Stes


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