Date: 23 Jul 2002 09:41:28 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, jos@catnook.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <1027381288.648.57.camel@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <B190C176-9DCA-11D6-A01D-000393038CC8@queasyweasel.com> References: <B190C176-9DCA-11D6-A01D-000393038CC8@queasyweasel.com>
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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
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