[Swift-user] suggestion for program flow control

[Mike Kubal]

--- On Wed, 6/11/08, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> From: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [Swift-user] suggestion for program flow control
> To: mikekubal at yahoo.com
> Cc: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 2:16 PM
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 11:48 -0700, Mike Kubal wrote:
> 
> > It wasn't a big deal to add the extra script, but
> it may be desirable for the swift program to not move to a
> function call outside of the loop until the loop is
> finished.  
> 
> One of the design issues with Swift was that it is also
> desirable for
> dependent loops to be pipelined. Which seems to be the
> opposite of what
> you want.
> 
> Why is it that you don't want to pass a result file for
> each of the
> thousand processed files?

laziness, 

and also I'm not sure what that should look like in the function definition? 

Is there a way I can make the argument list for the function dynamic since the number of result files will vary based on the selected database to process?

I can definitely see the benefit of having separate pipelines for non-dependent parts within the same script, but perhaps there is a way to chain dependent functions that is not dependent on files produced by previous functions? 

Like I said it wasn't a big deal to add the extra script to pause and count files, just different behavior than I expected from the loop code.

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> > Mike
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