Re: Lua as replacement for Bash scripting

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

> I share Javier and Florian's feelings -- Peter's os.execute wrapper
> already escapes properly all arguments. To me the very point of having
> stuff such as sh.run.command(arg1, arg2) is to avoid escaping.

If we have this function, is there a reason to hide it from the user?

> I don't mind having functions for string expansion, but I think we'll
> end up using them very little. I think we'll get a better feel about
> this when we rewrite some shell-script in our hypothetic API, as you
> suggested.

If we would use string expansion very little, IMO, we must drop it.
The most usable variant of string expansion uses debug library — which
is extra burden. Other variants are trivial to implement and need not
to be included in the lua-shellscript.

Alexander.