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		astrodust on July 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Distributing Command Line Applications: Why I S... What it needs is a `-e` flag: `ruby -e 'puts 5 + 7'`

dmitshur on July 23, 2013 [–]

Can you please elaborate on how that would help?

Is it just for familiarity/similarity? I kinda see the 'e' from ruby -e going after the go to form goe. goe -e would be just redundant, wouldn't it?

astrodust on July 23, 2013 | [–]

Perl, Ruby, Python, and many others have a succinct "evaluate this string" command-line flag. It's so commonplace it's to be expected.

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