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Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...


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 :-)

Regards
-----
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sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com


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