[Swift-user] Re: a third tutorial question

[Allan Espinosa]

This was a change in the API around a year or two ago.   Clearly the
documentation needs an update.

-Allan

2010/10/14 Daniel S. Katz <dsk at ci.uchicago.edu>:
> One more Swift thing I don't understand...
> Dan
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "Daniel S. Katz" <dsk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> Date: October 14, 2010 10:45:24 AM CDT
> To: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
> Subject: a third tutorial question
>
> In http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/tutorial.php in first.swift, the
> procedure is defined as:
>
> app (messagefile t) greeting () {
>         echo "Hello, world!" stdout=@filename(t);
> }
>
>
> in parameter.swift, the new procedure is defined as:
>
> (messagefile t) greeting (string s) {
>     app {
>         echo s stdout=@filename(t);
>     }
> }
>
> I don't understand why the style of defining the procedure has changed, or
> what this change implies.
> I would have just started with the first.swift procedure, and changed it to:
>
> app (messagefile t) greeting (string s) {
>         echo s stdout=@filename(t);
> }
>
>
> In fact, I did try this, and the code works fine, so I fail to understand
> the reason for the larger change that is in the tutorial.
> Dan
>
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> Daniel S. Katz
> University of Chicago
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> --
> Daniel S. Katz
> University of Chicago
> (773) 834-7186 (voice)
> (773) 834-3700 (fax)
> d.katz at ieee.org or dsk at ci.uchicago.edu
> http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/
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Allan M. Espinosa <http://amespinosa.wordpress.com>
PhD student, Computer Science
University of Chicago <http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~aespinosa>