On Sat, 1 May 2021, Loren Wilton wrote:
Ideally rules could be written with some pseudo-language that could do
complex things, grabbing things into variables, modifying, comparing to
other things etc. Then there wouldn't be any need for Perl plugins doing
some trivial stuff.
An awful lot I think could be done simply by having rules that can capture to
named per-message-global variables, and allowing those variables to be used
in other (or the same) rules. The Perl RE syntax almost allows for this
as-is, so it shouldn't be a great stretch to modify the rules parser to allow
such things and capture the names of the variables and create the variables.
I've been wanting this for years.
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