Re: Scripting support

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

On Saturday 22 October 2005 04:46 pm, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
> I propose the following argorithm. Bison parser transforms the text-form
> to internal form of a linked list of commands with some special commands
> like jump if last value was true, ... . Think about assembler. Then it's
> executed by simple engine that works like CPU: it takes one command from
> a linked list. Executes it and changes the pointer so it points to the
> next command. A command is a structure containing:
>     variable showing it's type (normal command, jump, loop, end of loop,
> ...)
>     union of data necessary for necessary commands
>     pointer to next command.

Ahghh. Please avoid making yet another language. Since the language constructs 
in shell is so few, I don't see much benefit from such a translation.

Okuji