Re: [Bug-apl] she bang script arguments

[Elias Mårtenson]

How about checking if argv[0] is "aplscript" and then run it as if --script had been given?

That would allow you to symlink apl to aplscript and provide both behaviours.

Regards,
Elias

On 5 Jun 2016 17:53, "Juergen Sauermann" <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Xiao-Yong,

you can already run apl as proposed. The only difference is that --script is not automatically implied.

But setting --script automatically would make the use of GNU APL incompatible with the needs of
other users (including myself).

I normally write my APL programs in a separate text editor and then run the text file (without --script) with:

   apl textfile

/// Jürgen

On 06/02/2016 03:58 AM, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote:

Hi Juergen,

Thanks for the script trick.  The script in my previous email
works for all the cases when bash is in different places (your
bash script still requires /bin/bash which fails in *BSD, but
/usr/bin/env actually exists for all the systems I have).  I
wanted to ask if it is OK for you to change the apl command line
handling such that it resembles python or julia, so running

    apl script.apl

would be the same as given '--script'; while running it without
an explicit file argument makes it enter interactive mode just
like it does currently.

Best,
Xiao-Yong

On Jun 1, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Xiao-Yong,

there was a brief discussion on bug-apl earlier this year:

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2016-02/msg00045.html

and my conclusion was that the env approach does not work for GNU APL.

The problem seems to be that in:

   #! /usr/bin/env: apl --script

env searches for an executable named "apl --script" and does, of course,
not find it. This seems to be a consequence of env using execve() and friends (see
man execve) and I consider this to be a bug in env. All this happens before GNU APL
has even started,

A simple work-around is probably to put apl with the desired options (in particular --script)
into yet another script , say run_apl:

address@hidden:~/projects/juergen/apl-1.5/src$ cat run_apl 
#! /bin/bash
# additional arguments

apl --script -- $0 << ENDCAT

'script arguments:' ⎕ARG

)OFF

ENDCAT


If you run that script, then you get:

address@hidden:~/projects/juergen/apl-1.5/src$ ./run_apl 
 script arguments:   apl --script -- ./run_apl

which shows that the arguments given to apl (or to the workspace after --)
can be accessed. You can then open/parse run_apl with ⎕FIO functions.

/// Jürgen