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Re: [PATCH] support $$vars and $$parms

From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: Stan Cox <scox at redhat dot com>, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:25:57 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support $$vars and $$parms
References: <1216905625.21216.8.camel@multics.rdu.redhat.com> <20080724194251.E740D154252@magilla.localdomain>

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

> Since these nuggets just produce a string, is there any special reason to
> have special goofy syntax for them.  Why not just make these built-in
> functions that are used with normal function syntax?

You mean built-in like print*()?  It seems more natural ride on the
$context name space than to take some from the tapset/script function
namespace.  Plus it would be more complex translator-wise.

- FChE

References:
- [PATCH] support $$vars and $$parms
  - From: Stan Cox
- Re: [PATCH] support $$vars and $$parms
  - From: Roland McGrath

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