Miller script

[derekmahar]

Add an option to process a script file containing a sequence of verbs similar to what then-chaining achieves now by chaining together verbs.

[johnkerl]

This is trivial & very easy to do except for if the then-chain includes a put or filter in which case the parsing needs to be a bit complicated ... honestly I don't see a huge advantage over shell scripts but as long as I enforce rules about put/filter expressions being single-quoted, and correctly handle embedded-but-escaped single-quotes within the put/filter expression ... it should be doable.

It feels like reinventing a fair amount of shell-script parsing logic which makes me think shell-scripting is already the way to go though ...

[derekmahar]

Yes, perhaps you're right. I was thinking that conditional evaluation might be useful while minimizing the mlr invocations, but existing shell scripts and then-caching serve this purpose well enough already.

[johnkerl]

OK, thank you! :)