I'd wirte "--eval" argument extraction too if I knew how to process
lists in Boot in terms of Lisp (car and cdr). Also, please, notice
that the various Lisp dialects may return CL list both with 0th
argument and without it, so extraction function should take that into
account.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Alexander Solovets
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is the patch providing access to command-line arguments for
> various Lisp-s(excluding poplog)
> https://github.com/mbait/fricas/commit/488721e72aa495103cfc09475a0e4a706ef682ac
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Waldek Hebisch
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>>> > Yes, that is useful.  I think that 'pre' is too unspecific, what
>>> > about 'FRICAS_PREINIT' and '--preinit'?  Also I similar way we can
>>> > add 'FRICAS_EVAL_LISP' and '--eval-lisp' to evaluate arbitrary
>>> > piece of Lisp code.  And maybe 'FRICAS_EVAL' and '--eval' for
>>> > interpreter input.  The execution order would be Lisp, then
>>> > preinit then eval.
>>> It seems that --eval provides all the necessary functionality.
>>> --eval ')lisp (lisp-code)'
>>> --eval ')read something.input'
>>> The file something.input can contain )lisp lines
>>> All possibilities are covered.
>>>
>>> This should be evaluated after .fricas.input but before an interactive
>>> session, so that something.input could adjust things from .fricas.input
>>> for the purpose of the present session (for example, a session from
>>> TeXmacs or from emacs).
>>>
>>
>> The following (minimally tested) patch implements 'FRICAS_EVAL' in
>> AXIOMsys:
>>
>>
>> Index: src/interp/int-top.boot
>> ===================================================================
>> --- src/interp/int-top.boot     (revision 972)
>> +++ src/interp/int-top.boot     (working copy)
>> @@ -93,11 +93,17 @@
>>  $ncmMacro :=            NIL
>>  $ncmPhase :=      NIL
>>
>> +do_pre_eval() ==
>> +    ec := getEnv('"FRICAS__EVAL")
>> +    if ec then
>> +        CATCH('SPAD__READER, CATCH('top__level, parseAndEvalStr ec))
>> +
>>  spad() ==
>>   -- starts the interpreter, read in profiles, etc.
>>   $PrintCompilerMessageIfTrue: local
>>   setOutputAlgebra "%initialize%"
>>   readSpadProfileIfThere()
>> +  do_pre_eval()
>>   runspad()
>>   'EndOfSpad
>>
>>
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>>                              Waldek Hebisch
>> [email protected]
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