Clojure CLI Tool

Exec Arguments vs Polylith Tool Documentation
The poly tool uses its own syntax when passing in parameters. When using the poly command as a Clojure CLI Tool (see Install using Clojure CLI) we instead use the standard way of passing in arguments as pairs.
The "native" poly tool has the following argument structure:
the command, followed by
zero or more entities (e.g., create can be followed by component), followed by
named arguments (e.g., project:example), and
flag arguments (e.g., :loc), and
profiles (e.g., +remote).
Because "exec args" must follow key/value syntax, the argument structure for -Tpoly is:
the command (which is the "exec fn"), followed by
entity to name the first argument(s) to create or help,
named arguments as key/value pairs (e.g., project example),
flag arguments as keys with true or false values (e.g., loc true),
profiles to list any profiles to enable, without the leading + (e.g., profiles '[remote]').
For convenience, most arguments can be provided as symbols rather than requiring quoted strings:
# strings have to be quoted for EDN and the shell:
clojure -Tpoly info project '"example"'
# the following shorthand is allowed:
clojure -Tpoly info project example
Both project and profile exist in singular form, taking a symbol or string, and in a plural form, taking a vector of symbols or strings:
# select more than one project:
clojure -Tpoly info projects '[example cli]'
# select just one profile:
clojure -Tpoly info profile remote
Some poly commands treat :brick and :project as flag arguments and other expect brick:name or project:name as named arguments. When using "exec args", the meaning is determined by whether the value is boolean or not:
# select all projects:
clojure -Tpoly info project true # flag argument
# select a specific project:
clojure -Tpoly info project cli # named argument
Since the exec argument format for create becomes verbose, there are four shortcut arguments:
# full create command syntax:
clojure -Tpoly create entity component name user
# shorthand:
clojure -Tpoly create c user
# similarly for b (base), p (project), and w (workspace)
clojure -Tpoly create w next-gen top-ns com.my-company
# is shorthand for:
clojure -Tpoly create entity workspace name next-gen top-ns com.my-company
Finally, for some commands, more than one "entity" can be provided for the entity exec argument, those can be :-separated (in a string), or use entities and a vector (which can have symbols instead of strings):
clojure -Tpoly help entity create:component
# equivalent to:
clojure -Tpoly help entities '[create component]'
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