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

Simon Glass
2021-07-06T14:57:47Z

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