nushell/crates/nu-engine
Fernando Herrera 83b28cad8d
Remove dependencies (#3853)
* nuframe in its own type in UntaggedValue

* Removed eager dataframe from enum

* Dataframe created from list of values

* Corrected order in dataframe columns

* Returned tag from stream collection

* Removed series from dataframe commands

* Arithmetic operators

* forced push

* forced push

* Replace all command

* String commands

* appending operations with dfs

* Testing suite for dataframes

* Unit test for dataframe commands

* improved equality for dataframes

* moving all dataframe operations to protocol
2021-07-27 14:20:06 -05:00
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src Remove dependencies (#3853) 2021-07-27 14:20:06 -05:00
tests Fix issue in external subexpression paths (#3642) 2021-06-18 07:59:58 +12:00
Cargo.toml Bump to 0.34.1 (#3835) 2021-07-25 22:58:33 +12:00
README.md Fix typos and capitalization of "Unicode" (#3234) 2021-04-04 07:14:07 +12:00

Nu-Engine

Nu-engine handles most of the core logic of nushell. For example, engine handles: - Passing of data between commands - Evaluating a commands return values - Loading of user configurations

Top level introduction

The following topics shall give the reader a top level understanding how various topics are handled in nushell.

How are environment variables handled?

Environment variables (or short envs) are stored in the Scope of the EvaluationContext. That means that environment variables are scoped by default and we don't use std::env to store envs (but make exceptions where convenient).

Nushell handles environment variables and their lifetime the following:

  • At startup all existing environment variables are read and put into Scope. (Nushell reads existing environment variables platform independent by asking the Host. They will most likely come from std::env::*)
  • Envs can also be loaded from config files. Each loaded config produces a new ScopeFrame with the envs of the loaded config.
  • Nu-Script files and internal commands read and write env variables from / to the Scope. External scripts and binaries can't interact with the Scope. Therefore all env variables are read from the Scope and put into the external binaries environment-variables-memory area.