Currently, the commands default, timeout, etc. are ad-hoc, because they can be usual variables, but they are commands only for the menu context. I think the right way is to make a context for variables (and maybe for funcions as well).
This can be implemented differently, that is, using handlers. Handlers can change the behavior of each variable arbitrarily. But I'm afraid that this is sometimes confusing, and could be a burden, if we want to define more menu-specific variables. For instance, I'm considering using variables to define a "theme" of the menu interface. This would require a lot of variables. If we use handlers, we would have so many special variables... IMO, handlers are exceptions, and less exceptions are better to understand the system. So I'd like to make variables more similar to BASH's semantics; by default, all variables should be local, and become global only when the user executes "export". Then, a reference of a variable means that GRUB first search the variable in the current context, then in the global context. This looks cleaner than the current implementation. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
