[Swift-devel] strcat

[Mike Wilde]

This sounds good, Ben.

I had asked Nika and Tibi, as part of their application write-ups and wiki 
logs, to include pointers to the swift code, and in the writeups to also show 
not only the way its coded today but also the way we would *like* to code it.

Ive also asked that we do all our app test runs, to the extent possible, from 
below a uniform directory structure on the CI NFS server. So this would let 
you find their examples and copy them to try new features such as this out on.

In this case, I dont know whats easiest, and who has time to get to it first. 
As this is not checked in, it seems like for now what we need Ben is for you 
to get access to a runnable example, and recode it using @strcat().

If this sounds reasonable, then Nika and Tibi, could you each set up one 
simple but working example for Ben to try, on terminable?

Thanks,

Mike

Ben Clifford wrote, On 4/18/2007 12:54 PM:
> I've made some changes, uncommitted, that let you write something like 
> this:
> 
> ===
> type file {};
> 
> (file i) p() {
> app {
> echo "hi" stdout=@filename(i);
> }
> }
> 
> file q <"volume.blah">;
> file r <single_file_mapper;file=@strcat("foo", at filename(q))>;
> 
> q=p();
> r=p();
> 
> ===
> 
> This will create two files, once called "volume.blah" and one called 
> "foovolume.blah".
> 
> The point of this is to support the use cases from Tibi and Nika that 
> motivated bug 24, one of the 0.2 target features.
> 
> So now I guess I should see if this functionality is actually helpful for 
> them in terms of expressing those workflows more concisely...
> 

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Mike Wilde
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