From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 22 16:42: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4646D37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta04bw.bigpond.com (mta04bw.bigpond.com [139.134.6.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB1643E31 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from areilly@bigpond.net.au) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org ([144.135.24.78]) by mta04bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta04bw May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id GZOCHA00.FLB for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:41:34 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-132-188-183.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.188.183]) by bwmam04.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 29/19898505); 23 Jul 2002 09:41:28 Received: (qmail 1108 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 23:41:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (andrew@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 23:41:28 -0000 Subject: Re: Package system flaws? From: Andrew Reilly To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mark Valentine , jos@catnook.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 23 Jul 2002 09:41:28 +1000 Message-Id: <1027381288.648.57.camel@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 09:28, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Monday, Jul 22, 2002, at 16:16 US/Pacific, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > Just how important _is_ the exec function to a scripting language? > > Not nearly as important as the eval function. :) Doh! That's what I meant, of course. Insufficient caffiene intake so far this morning. So: do, for example, portupgrade or libh make significant use of an eval function? I know (well, believe: it's been a while since I looked) that tcl is all read-eval loop, just like lisp. But how much is that functionality actually used in real programs/scripts? Config file parsing is about all that I can think of, and that's likely to be subsumed by an XML parser or LDAP server hook due to popular demand any day now... :-) -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message