Re: [RFC PATCH 02/28] cli: Add LIL shell

Wolfgang Denk
2021-07-06T07:46:55Z

Dear Sean,

In message <e7e23702-4e55-f785-c77f-2d3076fdd67b@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> >>> foo() { proc foo {first second} {
> >>> echo $1 $2 echo $first $second
> >>> } }
>
> This is not possible. We only have eval (run) as of today. I view adding
> functions as one of the most important usability improvements we can
> make.

Again: this is not an issue with hush as is, but only with our
resource-limited port of a nearly 20 year old version of it.

Updating to a current version would fix this, in an almost 100%
backward compatible way.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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