[Rake-devel] Suggestion: allow passing of extra command-line args to the task

[Gavin Sinclair]

On Monday, June 14, 2004, 9:20:03 PM, Martin wrote:

>> What I'm getting at is this.  If rake did support the CL syntax you
>> describe, I would still do this instead for clarity:
>> 
>>   rake clean
>>   rake html -f other.txt
>>   rake test -f test.in
>>   rake make
>>   rake make-install
>> 
>> But looking at the above, I think the addition of -f does serve to
>> visually distinguish between the target and its arguments.
>> 
>> Conclusion: I like the -f idea, but see no need to introduce the \;.

> True, for much the same reason that people tend to have one ruby statement per
> line, even though the language allows semicolons. But by the same token, if you
> don't want to use them, you don't need to. I just like the \; for generality
> (i.e. you can have multiple targets, and each target can have multiple
> arguments). If nothing else, letting them all be on one line lets you uparrow
> and repeat the command.

I simply cannot argue against such logic.  Brilliant :)

I guess the question now is: is there a slightly less ugly syntax,
pitched at the same level of generality?

Actually, the main question is: what does Jim think of all this?

Gavin