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GNU Guile 2.0.7 released

GNU Guile 2.0.7 released

Posted Dec 4, 2012 23:53 UTC (Tue) by atai (subscriber, #10977)
In reply to: GNU Guile 2.0.7 released by HelloWorld
Parent article: GNU Guile 2.0.7 released

OK I did some search. Grub 2 did use Lua for some time and later dropped it.


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GNU Guile 2.0.7 released

Posted Dec 5, 2012 19:14 UTC (Wed) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]

Not quite true either. It was never the default; and we still support it as a bolt-on extension from grub-extras. It's the sort of thing you might build in if you have particularly complex scripting needs. For most purposes, we'd rather focus on the sh-like "GRUB script".

Grub script

Posted Dec 12, 2012 13:57 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

By the way, is there a way to iterate over the files in a directory with that language? There seems to be no command substitution and it doesn't seem possible to loop over the result of a globbing expression either.

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