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Issue #15371 has been updated by onlynone (Steven Willis).


svnpenn (Steven Penny) wrote:
> shevegen (Robert A. Heiler) wrote:
> > By the way, I find it slightly amusing that python's "there is only
> > one way" became "there are four ways". ;-)
> 
> Its actually only 2 ways if you want a true REPL:

It's actually only 1 way. The `--` is just a command line option/argument parsing convention to mark an explicit break between options and arguments. It's useful when one of your arguments might look like an option. Like if you're trying to remove a file called `-i`, you can write `rm -- -i` and the `-i` will be treated as a filename argument and not the `-i` option to ask for confirmation before deletion. It's not a python thing.

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Bug #15371: IRB with ARGV
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15371#change-77269

* 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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