Extensible Command Line
1 Core Forms
command-line-ext
define-command-line-flag-expander
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Extensible Command Line🔗ℹ

This library defines a more extensible version of command-line that supports command line flag expanders, allowing users to abstract over common command line flag patterns. This library also comes batteries-included with many pre-defined expanders for commmon patterns such as switches that toggle boolean parameters.

Source code is available at https://github.com/jackfirth/command-line-ext

1 Core Forms🔗ℹ

syntax

(command-line-ext maybe-name flag-clause ... final-clause)

Like command-line, but with a few important differences. In addition to the normal options for flag-clause that command-line allows, a flag clause may also be of the form (begin-flags flag-clause ...), which has exactly the same semantics as if each flag-clause contained within begin-flags was spliced into the surrounding list of flag clauses. Additionally, command-line-ext supports command line flag expanders, which are similar to match expanders and allow a user to extend the grammar of flag-clause. A custom flag-clause created with define-command-line-flag-expander can expand to multiple flag clauses by using begin-flags.

syntax

(define-command-line-flag-expander id transformer-expr)

Binds id as a command line flag expander. When (id expr ...) appears as a flag-clause in command-line-ext, a syntax object representing (id expr ...) is passed to transformer-expr, which must be an expression that evaluates to a procedure of one argument at phase 1. Whatever syntax object transformer-expr returns is then used in place of (id expr ...) as a flag-spec.