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To Jeff/Uwe...just asking...
From: |
Graham Douglas |
Subject: |
To Jeff/Uwe...just asking... |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:44:13 +0100 |
To Jeff/Uwe
I'm a bit wary of asking the following, tentative, question
because I'm sure to be exposing my fundamental
ignorance of Lout for the world to see. Oh well, here goes...
The @Filter allows you to run commands, but, I guess,
if you had *a lot* of these, it would greatly slow
Lout as it repeatedly executed system(...)
commands -- and all the file I/O etc.
(or would it?)
Is it possible that one could, somehow,
link directly to a scripting language? Perhaps add a new
primitive called, say, @Script{scripting commands}?
I have no idea, as yet, how you could, if at all, communicate
anything back to Lout.
On Windows, I'm thinking of, say, a DLL which
contains the scripting engine (Lua
in my case) and you could, say, load/initialise the
Lua interpreter on Lout start-up (clean up on
Lout exit) to provide some efficient
way to makes calls to the interpreter...
Could this be done?
Would it be useful?
Should I go and see a doctor?
I can't think, as yet, how you could make full
use of this... just exploring, that's all -- a bit of
speculative thinking out load :-)
Yours, in wild speculation,
Graham
- To Jeff/Uwe...just asking...,
Graham Douglas <=