Hi David,

These are very good suggestions, sorry I did not reply earlier.

It sounds like a good Sunday Squeaker project for tomorrow after
I get a good pot of coffee going :-)

Thanks,
Dave

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 08:12:05AM +0100, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
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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"
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> 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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