[RFC] Let "gcore" command accept a suffix argument

Michael Snyder msnyder@vmware.com
Mon Nov 30 20:46:00 GMT 2009


Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Would it be able to include the incr? "eval gcore foo.$a++"?
> 
> I do not think so, not as suggested by Tom, I believe.  The suggestion
> is to expand convenience variables, not evaluate full-fledged
> expressions.  The issue with full-fledged expressions is that you have
> to recognize them and find where they start and end. But I think that
> this would not be a serious limitation in practice, since the above
> can be rewritten as:
> 
>   eval gcore foo.$a
>   set $a = $a + 1

Well, that would suit me OK, so long as somebody else
implements it.




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