[Swift-user] Expanding arrays in app function command lines

[Ben Clifford]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ben Clifford wrote:

> > But in general, the ability to expand an array of strings into the command
> > line is useful and I think should be done in array member order.
> 
> > Can/should this be changed to behave like that?
> 
> yes, this is something I've been meaning to work on.

http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~benc/tmp/argstar.patch

will allow you to specify arrays of strings directly as parameters.

http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~benc/tmp/strarray.swift demonstrates the use 
of such.

You can apply that, or you can wait a few days more me to test it more 
thoroughly and commit.

Note that instead of saying x[*] you would say x without further 
modifiers.

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