[ruby-core:90267] [Ruby trunk Bug#15371] IRB with ARGV

[shevegen@gmail.com]

Issue #15371 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


I can not say whether the above is a bug or not; however had a grep
shows that there are two toplevel methods for IRB to make use
of ARGV, both in init.rb:

    init.rb:  def IRB.setup(ap_path, argv: ::ARGV)
    init.rb:  def IRB.parse_opts(argv: ::ARGV)

By the way, I find it slightly amusing that python's "there is only
one way" became "there are four ways". ;-)

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Bug #15371: IRB with ARGV
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15371#change-75382

* Author: svnpenn (Steven Penny)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN
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PHP allows you to pass ARGV in interactive mode:

    $ php -a -- alpha beta gamma
    php > print $argv[3] . PHP_EOL;
    gamma

and Python offers 4 ways:

    $ python3 - alpha beta gamma
    >>> import sys
    >>> print(sys.argv[3])
    gamma

    $ python3 -- - alpha beta gamma
    >>> import sys
    >>> print(sys.argv[3])
    gamma

    $ python3 -i - alpha beta gamma
    >>> import sys
    >>> print(sys.argv[3])
    gamma

    $ python3 -i -- - alpha beta gamma
    >>> import sys
    >>> print(sys.argv[3])
    gamma

However IRB seems to have no way to accomplish this:

    $ irb - alpha beta gamma
    /usr/share/ruby/2.3.0/irb/init.rb:213:in `parse_opts':
    Unrecognized switch: - (IRB::UnrecognizedSwitch)

    $ irb -- alpha beta gamma
    /usr/share/ruby/2.3.0/irb/magic-file.rb:8:in `initialize': No such file or
    directory @ rb_sysopen - alpha (Errno::ENOENT)

    $ irb -- - alpha beta gamma
    /usr/share/ruby/2.3.0/irb/magic-file.rb:8:in `initialize': No such file or
    directory @ rb_sysopen - - (Errno::ENOENT)

    $ irb - -- alpha beta gamma
    /usr/share/ruby/2.3.0/irb/init.rb:213:in `parse_opts':
    Unrecognized switch: - (IRB::UnrecognizedSwitch)



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