[Swift-user] suggestion for program flow control

[Mihael Hategan]

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> > Why is it that you don't want to pass a result file for
> > each of the
> > thousand processed files?
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> laziness, 

Fair enough an argument for me.

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

If I understand this correctly, then you can pass the whole array. You'd
get each file name on the command line. There's a question of whether
you'd cross the command line length limitation.

We should have array slices in Swift maybe?

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> 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? 

Only that it is, but Swift has no idea about it. The dependency is
handled/created by your script.

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> 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.

Right. If you look at it through the prism of an intuition constructed
by doing C and Java and the likes, it doesn't look right.

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