On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Matt Oates (Home) <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 May 2011 16:43, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can we come up with an even better word? Maybe something already used >> elsewhere? > > There is a generator function in the Icon programming langauge that > does something very similar called 'every' the point being you are > generating every combination of some data and the whole expression > gets around having to nest any loops at all! Describe the > functionality not what it's replacing, 'forevery' or 'forall' might be > good too.
I do not like --forall (primarily I have been thinking about makine --onall, which would run all commands on all hosts in the hostlist), but --forevery I like much better. > Really looking forward to using this, thanks for your efforts Ole! Try the alpha. I have changed so that --forevery is default and --xapply now must be set explicitly. /Ole
