Smart defaults should take functions that depend on previous option values

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reviewing Angular CLI's existing smart-default behavior and the option-value example in this issue. The requested behavior is complete when defaults can accept functions that receive previous option values and produce derived values, including values with different casing.

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Smart defaults are great, but they would be even more useful if they could take arbitrary functions that accept previous option values as arguments. For example, some default values I need are based on previous option values, but with different casing.

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