[Swift-devel] Standard Library Proposal/Discussion Page

[Yadu Nand Babuji]

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-Yadu
On 01/22/2015 02:46 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:14 -0600, Yadu Nand Babuji wrote:
>>>> remove    (/rm)
>>>> move ?    ( python doesn't seem to have this)
>>> Like move and remove files? Do you have an example of how these would be
>>> used?
>> I remember a case where a directory is actively getting filled with data
>> that needs to be processed.
>> So, we map the input_queue directory, "move" the file to the active
>> directory and start the processing.
>>
>> file active_files[] <simple_mapper; location="active_list", prefix="active"> ;
>> file completed[];
>>
>> iterate ( ){
>>       file new_files[] = <simple_mapper; location="input_queue", prefix="foo">;
>>       foreach f in new_files{
>>           move ( f, active_files[length(active_files)] );          # We move the file, so that it is not processed again in the next round.
>>           completed[length(completed)] = process(active_file);
>>           sleep(60);
>>       }
>> }until ( status == 10000 );
> Does this work without move()? Say, by doing the move in a script as
> part of process()?
Of course, that is possible. The only reason I though that an explicit 
move/remove would make sense is because
I think swift should be handling the movement of files involved in the 
run. Perhaps this isn't as clean as I thought it'd be.
> Mihael
>