Recent changes to feature-requests

Support for velocity-like syntax

Gary Furash — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:35:13 -0000

Add straightforward support for variable replacement
within strings and other contexts. e.g.,

x = 5;
print("the value of x is $x");
>> the value of x is 5

EXTENDS support

Gary Furash — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:25:37 -0000

Add support for Extending classes (ideally within a
script but outside of a class in the same way that
implements works).

Change array syntax

Gary Furash — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:24:46 -0000

Support more Java-like array syntax (creation,
declaration, etc.)

Embedded expressions in strings

Juha Lindström — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:43:42 -0000

It would be nice if you could embed bex expressions in
strings. For example: foo = "Hello ${person.name}". The
current solution using the format function from the
standard library isn't quite as elegant.

addClassPath

Juha Lindström — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:39:57 -0000

In BeanShell you can dynamically modify the classpath
where the language runtime searches for classes and
commands. This would be useful in bex as well since
then you wouldn't have to set the classpath before
launching the interpreter.

importCommands

Juha Lindström — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:25:21 -0000

In BeanShell you can use importCommands to specify
directories or packages where the language runtime
searches for "commands". A command is basically a
function that does something useful. In BeanShell a
command can be implemented in BeanShell or Java.
Similar functionality would be useful in bex.