[Swift-devel] Re: passing types and variables in swift

[Ben Clifford]

yes.

that's why I'd rather they be hacks that look more like what they should 
end up like.

in order to get people doing things with this, there are going to need to 
be hacks (or prototype implementations, if you prefer) - months of 
abstract arm waving about how mappers work without concrete use has not 
resulting in a mapper API that does what some people want it to do; and 
months more of it won't, either.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> These hacks will bite us in the future.
> 
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:46 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > i'd be inclined to grab the csv reading code from the csv mapper and see 
> > about making a @extractcsv function. It keeps code using it a little bit 
> > more like it would if mappers could support it, which is probably the way 
> > things will end up one day.
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > 
> > > a hacky way to do this is first a loop to read the csv file into an array,
> > > then do a foreach over the array.
> > > 
> > > i suspect we have the constructs (with @extractint) to do this; not sure if we
> > > can read the CSV into an array-of-structs that we can then foreach() over. But
> > > even if not, this will work using parallel arrays, and probably not be too
> > > unpleasing.
> > > 
> > > lets try it.
> > > 
> > > On 10/4/07 10:15 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > > > you're the second person today to talk about reading in values from csv
> > > > files. maybe we should implement this.
> > > 
> > > 
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