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| author |  Techcable <Techcable@techcable.net> | 2022-08-18 12:16:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Techcable <Techcable@techcable.net> | 2022-08-18 12:16:14 -0700 |
| commit | dbac495bee131c5bfac23e8ff8d9a4c9bf50ba37 (patch) | |
| tree | 71005e09d559c05ff075e9b7580e17449ec24656 /janet.1 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'master' of github.com:janet-lang/janet (diff) | |
Clarify the documentation of janet -E flag
This confused me, despite having a fair deal of janet experience.
Diffstat (limited to 'janet.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | janet.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -164,10 +164,15 @@ Execute a string of Janet source. Source code is executed in the order it is enc arguments are executed before later ones. .TP -.BR \-E\ code arguments +.BR \-E\ code\ arguments... Execute a single Janet expression as a Janet short-fn, passing the remaining command line arguments to the expression. This allows more concise one-liners with command line arguments. +Example: janet -E '(print $0)' 12 is equivalent to '((short-fn (print $0)) 12)', which is in turn equivalent to +`((fn [k] (print k)) 12)` + +See docs for the `short-fn` function for more details. + .TP .BR \-d Enable debug mode. On all terminating signals as well the debug signal, this will |