Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Script-Types?
Author: Oliver Wrede Posted: 4/25/1999; 9:12:10 AM Topic: Script-Types? Msg #: 5290 Prev/Next: 5289 / 5291
Hello!I thought it would be a great Idea if Frontier could directly execute Sctripts of any pluggable script interpreter!
As far as I understand, I can have JScript, VBScript and Perl as DLLs (on Windows) and can wrap the calls with UserTalk to call a Script engine and handover a string of code and recieve the result - but I still have to do UserTalk code in front of any non-UserTalk call.
Why not shortcutting this? I think it would be an insanly great thing to be able to define more script types than just "script" (for containing usertalk code). I'd like to be able to use a "perlscript" type if I have installed the corresponding script DLL.
This would make Frontier a real scripting enviroment -- not sticked to UserTalk alone! I also could directly call any available script as macros inside the pages.
I came up with this idea, when I had a discussion with someone who was not imperessed by Frontier in comparance to Perl. "That's not the point!", I said, "You may even develop your Perl stuff with Frontier and have a handy editor with some groupware functionality.".
Is this "feature" hard to implement? Is it wise to implement it from a certain standpoint?
It could make UserTalk obsolete and maybe mix up languages within a project and making it difficult to maintain or port anywhere else.
Oliver
There are responses to this message:
- Re: Script-Types?, Brent Simmons, 4/25/1999; 11:46:40 AM
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