[racket-dev] wishes

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri May 6 12:02:27 EDT 2011

Three minutes ago, Kevin Tew wrote:
> racket -tm some_module.rkt  runs the main function in some_module.rkt. 
> with the command-line arguments

(A trickiness with that is the fact that `main' should receive command
line arguments so composing multiple `main's is not straightforward.)


> Welcome to Racket v5.1.1.4.
> racket [<option> ...] <argument> ...
>   File and expression options:
>   -t <file>, --require <file> : Like -e '(require (file "<file>"))'
>   -m, --main : Call `main' with command-line arguments, print results
> 
> I would like racket -tM some_module.rkt some_function to run 
> some_function in the same manner as -tm runs main.
> e.g.
> racket -tM my_module.rkt  main
> racket -tM my_module.rkt  core-tests
> racket -tM my_module.rkt  tests

Sounds useful (emacs has a similar `-f' flag, for example), but still
a bit too much.

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