[Swift-devel] Re: folding/sequential-while/whatever and accessing data in files

[Ben Clifford]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 15:33 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > Is the retval file being considered, or do people prefer to pull 
> > variables out of files through Swift mapping directives?
> 
> The mappers were written exactly for that purpose. I'm not sure how wise
> it is to add new mechanisms to achieve the same goals.

I think that this discussion is part of a greater 'what is the swift data 
model / what do mappers do?' discussion.

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