Re: Lua as replacement for Bash scripting

[Hisham <hisham.hm@...>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW. Perhaps I've missed it in the earlier discussion, but why do we
> write calls in reverse?
>
> Isn't this better? It would allow some fancier chaining if we need one:
>
>  if sh.find("/etc", {name="*rc", ctime="+30"}).ok() then ...

This would take over the entire namespace of sh.*. Also, if we ever
manage to implement piping like grep().sort(), special functions in
the end like ok() could clash with program names.

-- Hisham