Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...

[Fernando Nasser]

Richard Sharpe wrote:> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> 
>>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>>That said, I'm not worried about implementing this as much as I am
>>>designing what it "ought" to look like.
>>>
>>
>>For me just:
>>
>>eval command args... ${something} more args...
>>
>>where the value of ${something} is blah
>>
>>causes the following command to be executed
>>
>>command args... blahh more args...
>>
>>
>>eval just expands the variable to create the real command to be excuted 
>>and calls execute_command() with it.
> 
> 
> This sounds like a simple short-term solution while we wait on a more 
> general method where all commands can take expressions of any type :-)
> 

Why we would want that?  Are you thinking of any specific example where this 
could be useful?




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