On Jan 11, 2016, at 2:42 PM, Dooley, Damion wrote:
... we're testing out a basic scripting language ... meant to provide [folks] with ways to [do something] without having to be programmers ... .... if( lt(/N50 200000) set(report/job/status FAIL))
Math is accomplished by python built-in math functions ...
It could well be that's the only way to accomplish what you want in whatever environment you're in. But the use of prefix notation and a funny name, for an operator like "<" that non-programmers use familiarly as infix, would seem contrary to the stated goal that the user needn't be a programmer.
If math can be accomplished via python, why not "<"? By "math" do you only mean function calls, and not arithmetic operators? Is it that python eval() can't be used because of security issues?
Bob H