[Swift-devel] Wishlist: array elements assignment

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:55 -0500, Yong Zhao wrote:
> That is the way to do it right now.

Does it actually work?
Wouldn't a be mapped by a concurrent mapper?

> 
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > 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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