[Swift-user] suggestion for program flow control

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Mike Kubal wrote:

> 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?

I've been playing with some code to do that as someone else requested it.

Basically you will be able to have a swiftscript variable that expresses 
the dependency, but doesn't have any actual content (such as a file).

Hopefully later this week there will be something in SVN.

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