[Swift-user] import position in swift script

[Max Hutchinson]

That params struct sure looks a lot like a json dict.  How about `params =
readJSON("debug.json");`?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:26 PM Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 19:48 +0000, Max Hutchinson wrote:
> > I agree that it is a no interface function call.  Maybe this is also
> > helpful with not needing to explicitly collect outputs to get staged out?
>
> Good point. We, more or less, require that the app, perhaps through a
> wrapper script, fully define its interface through the command line. On
> the other hand, magical matching is allowed. If you have an output
> carefully mapped to what the application produces, it will work even
> without a wrapper, but it's impossible to make that work if two
> invocations produce two files with the same name.
>
> That should change. The reason it didn't is that we didn't have a good
> idea about how to make the collect specification nice in the case of
> non-trivial file lists.
>
> > My understanding is that If run.swift contains a bunch of nested loops,
> one
> > would have declare a bunch of [auto] outputs and remember to append
> > everything to them (or they could be considered tmps and not staged out).
> > There's value to being forced to be thoughtful, but it might also be nice
> > to start with the trailing import while prototyping/debugging a script
> and
> > then switch to a wrapper after the dust has settled.
>
> I'd rather add code to allow mapping in struct expressions, so that you
> could write something like this:
>
> params = {
>         prefix: "debug",
>         json: <"debug.json">,
>         ...
> }
>
> test = sweep(params);
>
> and perhaps:
>
> with (params) {
>         ...
> }
>
> >
> > I'm focusing on direct staging, so the wrapper was straightforward.  For
> > reference:
> > https://github.com/maxhutch/nek-swift/blob/alcf/debug.swift
> > https://github.com/maxhutch/nek-swift/blob/alcf/nek.swift
> >
> > If imports are only going to be supported in the preamble, could that be
> > added to the docs?
> > http://swift-lang.org/guides/trunk/userguide/userguide.html#_imports
>
> We're in the process of revamping the docs. It will be in there.
>
> Mihael
>
>
>
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