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

[Mihael Hategan]

Or we could say some feature is not available yet.

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 16:41 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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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