Re: script bug

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

On Sunday 07 May 2006 13:40, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Yeah, the get_line was broken from the beginning...  I think it should
> be even possible to remove this function because we do not really need
> it.

I believe that get_line should be kept. Suppose that you have this kind of 
config file:

1: do something
2: do another thing
3: do yet another thing

To execute these lines, it is not necessary to keep all the three lines in 
memory, since they can be executed line by line. You can say that the 
consumed memory is not that much, but I don't think this is a good way of 
programming. Whenever possible, I think it is better to save memory.

BTW, could you describe how the scripting engine is supposed to work? For 
example, suppose that you have this (the syntax is not very important here):

if test -f /boot/kernel; then
  kernel /boot/kernel
fi

Is it possible to tell a line at a time to the scripting engine, and let it 
execute this code block once "fi" is inputted? BASH deals with command lines 
in this way.

Okuji