From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:42:47 +0100, Marc Van Dyck wrote:   
      
   > User written lexical functions, on the other hand, would be a real   
   > bonus. There are, for one, still many parts of the operating system for   
   > which you need to get information, and the only possible way to do it is   
   > to parse some output (think of everything TCP/IP, for example), while   
   > there is a callable interface available to get the info properly.   
      
   POSIXish shells seem to feel less need for such built-in extensions.   
      
   Is this a reflection on the ease of doing command substitutions in them,   
   vis-à-vis DCL?   
      
   Some newer commands in the Linux world have the option to produce output   
   in JSON format, which also helps.   
      
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