Re: [ferret_users] Re: whether any provision is available to use shell commands, with ferret

[Marco van Hulten <Marco.van.Hulten@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:26:56 +0100 Hein Zelle wrote:
> Russ Fiedler wrote:
> 
> > Yes, nesting grave accents is tricky. You probably need to break things
> > up into a few steps
> 
> This is something we run into a lot as well.  It can often be resolved
> in multiple steps, but remains tricky.  Ideally I would like to have
> bash syntax instead of grave accents:
> 
> $(variable[d=2])   instead of `variable[d=2]` .  The advantage is that
> the first one can be nested.  This would probably be a major change to
> the ferret parser, so I have no idea if that's feasible.

I agree, that would be a great improvement.

Marco

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