--- a/testing3/knight1_test.sh	Tue Oct 29 23:56:13 2019 +0000
+++ b/testing3/knight1_test.sh	Wed Oct 30 11:28:44 2019 +0000
@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@
 # functional tests
 
 function scala_assert_slow {
-  (ulimit -t 120; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -i "$1" "$2" -e "" 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
+  (ulimit -t 120; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -i "$1" "-- $2" 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
 }
 
 function scala_assert_thirty {
-  (ulimit -t 30; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -i "$1" "$2" -e "" 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
+  (ulimit -t 30; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -i "$1" -- "$2" 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
 }
 
 function scala_assert_quick {
-  (ulimit -t 30; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -i "$1" "$2" -e "" 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
+  (ulimit -t 30; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -i "$1" -- "$2"  2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
 }
 
 # purity test