On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:28:16AM +0200, David Fabian wrote: > Hello, > > this series of patches follows a discussion brought here about adding support > for deeper variable scopes especially in the flat notation. These patches add > a new variable scope to each include statement. The new scope is a child of > the parent scope (script in which the include resides). All variables in the > parent are still accessible in the child but the parent cannot access child > variables. This effectively creates a tree hierarchy and with the support of > redefine, one can even mask inherited variables in the child scopes. Sibling > scopes are not accessible from each other. > > If one wants to have some global definitions in a separate script and not > pollute the top-level script, one can use a new keyword global in the define > like: > > define global global_var=eth0 Better probably "global define" instead, so we make sure no script using the $global variable outthere breaks. > This puts $global_var to the top-level scope which is accessible from > everywhere and it survives any include. Global re-definitions and undefines > are also supported. Please send us patch using git send-email. Instead of them all attached to one single email, so patchwork [1] tracks them. Make sure your patches apply to nftables.git HEAD. Thanks! [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/list/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
