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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 07:55 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > In a sense I do like the a[*] syntax because it makes it very clear that
> > there is a variable number of things being passed.
> 
> Should you be compelled to put it after @filenames? (eg 
> @filenames(whatever)[*]) to indicate that you are passing multiple things?

The "s" in "filenames" seems to be sufficient. Though it probably does
the wrong thing in this case.

> 
> It also looks icky from a type system perspective - what is the type of 
> a[*] and how is that distinct from a?

tuple versus array. It's standard issue in ML, Python, and other
languages.

>  Its a (undocumented and unchecked) 
> mysterious ordered sequence type that you can only use specifically in app 
> parameters and a few other places, that there is not much to handle and 
> that you should pretend doesn't exist...
> 

I wouldn't change things. Just mentioned what I thought on the subject.