[Swift-devel] could we set the job sequence without a file dependency?

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Ian Foster wrote:

> This was the case in PCN when people were trying to do printf-like output. So
> you introduced a version of printf that bound a variable when it was done, and
> then wrote something like:

> BUT -- maybe we don't really do output like this in Swift programs (I don't
> think it is common, is it)?

Its not common to do "meat output" like that, no - all of that comes from 
procedures which generate files, which tend to not need sequencing of 
output.

Most of what you've talked about seems debugging oriented - none of the 
debugging I've done with people has really felt like I've wanted that kind 
of sequence operator. But I think some debugging-oriented something (be it 
language features, runtime options, something) would be useful - but its 
not clear to me what.

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