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dhamidi • yesterday at 7:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Maybe useful inspiration from TCL: there are many commands that define new variables, which makes modeling the stack unnecessary.

For example:

  lappend responses [dict status 200 body ...]
Appends a new dict to the list held in the variable responses, creating the variable if necessary.

I can see that being an attribute:

  <request-send url="..." as="greeting" />
  <response-text response="greeting" as="text" />
  <selection-set-text text="text" />

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lassejansen • yesterday at 8:04 PM

The main reason for using a stack was reducing verbosity because for short scripts using variables felt unnecessary when the type-prefix of the command already communicates the variable contents. But it could still be a good idea to have a shorter syntax for assigned variables.

Accessing a variables works like this at the moment:

  <selection-set-text $text="varname">
Keeping the dollar syntax, setting the return value to a named variable could look like this:

  <response-get-text $="varname">