Re: [NSE] Shared Script Environments for Threads & Universal Awareness

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:18 PM, jah <jah () zadkiel plus com> wrote:
> > Since we're using this nomenclature for script-specific information,
> > how about
> > making a global _R the registry interface?  It gets pretty ugly sometimes
> > trying to deal with some arguments, e.g.:
> >
> > nmap.registry.args.anonFTP.pass
> I'm for _R too!
> whois.nse has:
>
>    nmap.registry.whois.cache[host.ip].data
>
> which has to be writeable from all threads so cannot be copied into a
> local variable with a shorter name.
>
>    _R.cache[host.ip].data
>
> would be much nicer...

This can and should be solved by local variables.

local registry = nmap.registry;
local args = registry.args;

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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