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[REBOL] Re: [AWK GREP] AWK and GREP funcs, arg order

From: gregg::pointillistic::com at: 18-May-2007 9:47

Ged: GB> I think the logic is that the program/pattern is mostly likely to be GB> reused against different files. Anton: AR> I say you're applying the program to the files, because without AR> any files, there's no program. Tom: T> it is all data. why not let rawk figure out which is which I agree with all of you. :) I like the idea of auto-identification, but there may be ambiguity. The risk may be low enough that it's worth it though. In order to do that, it needs to be a dialect, rather than a func with args for each one. I thought about that originally, but didn't come up with one I liked, so I fell back on making it a simple func for the time being (I was more concerned with the internals at that point). What should the dialect look like? We have three categories of values: * sources -- files to analyze, but I also support blocks and strings. * program -- probably only one, with the pattern/action pairs as sub-items. * options -- e.g. /deep For command line use, the programs and file specs will probably be very simple, but you can write more complete programs and store them in files. How flexible should it be with regard to applying multiple source specs to multiple programs? For example, if you have overlapping functionality, do you need to run multiple programs, or reload a file list from a global spec for each "pass"? -- Gregg