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Apprentice Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 108

1. zscript to have anonymous functions. This makes it easy to do a call a function like @var[function](params) where function can be a variable. Might be implementable by using lua tables, lua already has this ability.
2. I really like the perl =~s and =~m operators. It would be nice to have similar operators in zmud. Including the ability to specify captures. ex. $var=~s/(This is a test) so is this/$1/
3. It would be nice if the package library would have the notion of required packages needed for a package to run.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Number 3 may not be a good idea. Zugg has said many times that he intended packages to be complete and modular, not depending on any other packages. This really is the best practice. Some have found it necessary to put in package dependencies, but I'm not sure it would be a good idea to encourage the practice.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:59 pm

I was never a big fan of anonymous functions, so I don't really agree with being built into zScript. Without having actually tested it, I'm sure you could probably do this similar to how you would do indirect variable references, or at the very least with %exec or #EXECUTE.

Number two can easily be handled by the %grep, %match and %regex functions. You can even do pattern matching in a #IF experssion using '=~'.