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

[Michael Wilde]

the extractcsv function sounds a bit like the value-setting mechanism i 
proposed when you started on extractint: set many values from one file.

is one way to do this to 'eval' a file containing swift expressions?
Or, to #include them?
This would look like a keyword-based value file

myparms.rho[0]=0.1 mparms.theta[0]=0.2
myparms.rho[1]=0.4 mparms.theta[0]=0.8
...
myparms.rho[N-1]=0.etc mparms.theta[etc]=0.etc

even if not as clean as extractcsv, it might be both fast and useful for 
many other purposes.

- mike



On 10/4/07 11:38 AM, 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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