Re: execute_cmd.h is not included in installed headers

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/2/22 4:03 PM, Robert E. Griffith wrote:
>  >> What's your use case?
>
> I have a bash script library that supports Objects and Classes in bash 
> script. I am now writing a loadable builtin to speed up the object call and 
> other mechanisms.
>
>     echo "'$obj'"
>     '_bgclassCall heap_A_XXXXX MyClass 0 |'
>     $obj.doSomething p1 p2
>
> _bgclassCall is a function that sets up the method context (e.g. local -n 
> this=heap_A_XXXXX),  and then calls the shell function that corresponds to 
> 'doSomething' (e.g. MyClass::soSomething)
>
> _bgclassCall has a bash implementation but when the new builtin is loaded I 
> suppress the bash version so the builtin is used.
>
> It also comes up for example if I want to implement the ConstructObject 
> function as a builtin, it identifies and runs the __constructor shell 
> functions while building up the object instance.

That seems reasonable. I'll add it.

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