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

Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
2021-07-07T08:23:14Z

Hi

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 4:57 PM Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 01:53, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
> <michael@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 9:46 AM Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Agree on this. There is another email about the LIL and how is right now
> > maintained and if the solutions that we have already in place can be just
> > updated, I don't find any valid reason to change it but update
> > seems more straightforward.
>
> Would you be interested in taking this on? It has been talked about
> for some years...
>
> Regards,
> Simon

I will ask to someone in the company to do as task. Francis can you do it?

Michael

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