Comment by dhamidi
7 hours ago
Maybe useful inspiration from TCL: there are many commands that define new variables, which makes modeling the stack unnecessary.
For example:
lappend responses [dict status 200 body ...]
Appends a new dict to the list held in the variable responses, creating the variable if necessary.
I can see that being an attribute:
<request-send url="..." as="greeting" />
<response-text response="greeting" as="text" />
<selection-set-text text="text" />
The main reason for using a stack was reducing verbosity because for short scripts using variables felt unnecessary when the type-prefix of the command already communicates the variable contents. But it could still be a good idea to have a shorter syntax for assigned variables.
Accessing a variables works like this at the moment:
Keeping the dollar syntax, setting the return value to a named variable could look like this: