[Swift-devel] Wishlist: array elements assignment

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:17 -0500, Yong Zhao wrote:
> Yeah, I actually thought about making the regexp_mapper to deal with an
> array of items.

What would be the result of the following:
any a[];
foreach... {
  x <...>;
  x = ...;
  a[i] = x;
}

?

> 
> Yong.
> 
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:
> 
> > -------- excerpts from the code ----
> > (file out) solver (file in){
> >     app{
> >         solve @filename(in) stdout=filename(out)
> >     }
> > }
> >
> >
> > (file solutions[]) problemset (file inputfiles[]){
> >         // _input_ is the file item, _i_ is its index
> >         foreach file input,i in inputfiles {
> >                 //FIXME: this one is an alternative that it would be
> > nice, because I could build the output filenames from input file names
> > on the fly
> >                 file
> > solutions[i]<regexp_mapper;source=@input,match=(.*),transform="\1.out">;
> >                 solutions[i]=solver(input);
> >         }
> > }
> >
> > file problems[]<filesys_mapper; prefix="X", suffix="*.gz">;
> >
> > //FIXME: alternative option for output file naming: declare them with
> > a regexp-like mapper from the input files:
> > file solutions[]<regexp_mapper;
> > source=@filenames(problems),match=(.*), transform="\1,out">
> >
> > solutions=problemset(problems);
> >
> > -------------------------
> >
> > I'm open for alternatives
> > I have N input files that I have to process, and generate N output files.
> > I have complete control over the naming of the physical input and output files
> > Currently, I was trying to do file  X.gz generates file X.gz.out
> > (hence the regexp mapper, as a means of doing string concatenation).
> >
> > See the FIXME comments for my thoughts
> >
> > --
> > Tiberiu (Tibi) Stef-Praun, PhD
> > Research Staff, Computation Institute
> > 5640 S. Ellis Ave, #405
> > University of Chicago
> > http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~tiberius/
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