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

[Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com>]

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.

Michael

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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