On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 09:30:38AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman via Exim-users wrote:
> On 2020-10-07 10:33, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>
> > > However, look & feel of Exim's API leaves much to be desired... I
> > > would prefer C/Perl style (without numerous {}), which does not
> > > require syntax-highlighting editor to be managed even for simple
> > > expressions. Say, <cond1> || <cond2> instead of
> > > or{{<cond1>}{<cond2}}.
> >
> > Well, maybe after Sendmail has become irrelevant, we still need
> > something to be very tricky?
>
> That's funny, because right after I read Evgeny's post I felt an urge to
> point out that you can always write a macro preprocessor if the real
> syntax is too ugly ;-)
Yes. ;) BTW, Exim has built-in macro facility, which is really helpful.
Decompositions like
COND1 = ...
COND2 = ...
EXP1 = ...
something = ... ${if or{{COND1}{COND2}} {EXP1}fail} ...
may significantly improve readability and save time.
--
Eugene Berdnikov
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