kunegis/stu

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stu's Issues

spaces in target names

To create a file with spaces in the name in bash, it is necessary to quote it.

touch "a b"   # a filename with three characters, the middle of which is a space

If there was a make rule to create this file, it could be called in a straighforward way:

make "a b"

But stu is a bit different at the moment (stu 1.10.0). A second level of escaping is needed:

stu `"a b"`

The good news is that the rule for creating the file can be written easily inmain.stu:

# main.stu
"a b" {
    echo hi > "a b"
}

Therefore, the only thing I find strange about stu is the need to apply "double-escaping" when called stu from bash. Is this by design? Or perhaps this will change to match make and other tools?

I'm willing to look into this myself. I'm very interested in stu and C++ is my main language. My approach would be to simply that each element of argv becomes one target filename. But perhaps you have other design reasons?

unicode test fails

(Update: now I've confused myself - maybe there is no issue after all! I'll message again shortly)

 $ ./mktest unicode
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 cd unicode
../../stu 
./mktest: *** Test 'unicode' should have returned 0, but returned 1
./mktest: *** Target 'A' was not built
../../stu 
  ./mktest: *** Second invocation did no result in 'Nothing to be done'
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./mktest: *** The following tests failed:
unicode

Looking at the test itself, it expects a file to already exist called 世界, which it then copies to jérôme.data and then to A. Is this correct? And therefore should the file 世界 be included in the repository?

I'll submit a pull request, where I'll add a fix, touch 世界