On 10/14/2011 7:06 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2011-10-14 at 16:26 +0100, John Horne wrote:
>> Whilst the use of EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS is tempting, I feel that if we
>> enable it then we should make the effort to see if there is some
>> mechanism the developers could provide to make things easier for us.
> Yours looks like a reasonable case for EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS. You are
> using the conditions safely.
>
> Moving forward: how far can you get using a named list, which references
> the variables you're interested in? (I'm seriously short on sleep right
> now, can barely remember what does and doesn't work in Exim named lists,
> but I think you should be able to do this, just shifting the expansion
> work safely into the named list definition.)
>
> I've been toying with the idea that Exim needs named parameterised
> lookups. Notably, in 60 years of programming language development, this
> idea has been stumbled upon before and has been given a catchy name.
> "Functions".
>
> -Phil
I would LOVE to see the Exim language expanded to include functions.
