@RL_Dane@benjaminhollon That looks like it'd be useful for renaming a lot of files non-systematically; I don't think I've ever wanted to do a bulk renaming where I couldn't express the new desired name as a function of the old name.
@RL_Dane@benjaminhollon ...and now I'm once again thinking about a computing environment where you can express everything in terms of state and functions so that you can express "contents of directory = application of f(name) to each file"
but, like, with much better syntax than that
I was thinking about this earlier - I often have scripts that e.g. take in text, process lines into fields, parse fields to numbers, do work, calculate some result
@RL_Dane@benjaminhollon If I'm going all-in on automation, which I think I want to for this project
It's a novel system shell. All data is typed. Whether data is stored in memory or on the file system is irrelevant; the shell is designed around implicit conversions as a base, and Paths can be implicitly converted to Files which can be implicitly converted to either metadata or data depending on context.
[]Line -> [][3]string, because the length is statically known [which is how it knows it can tokenize!]
[basically, by entering a situation where you want to convert a Line into a type that contains three fields, it can check a [precomputed? cached?] number of spaces in the Line, automatically split the line when it detects that they match, and yield an array, not a slice
@RL_Dane@benjaminhollon Fundamentally, a computer is a tool for taking data and applying manipulations to it.
What I want is basically just a shell designed to do the same things. Track data, and know how to manipulate it, the same way that the CPU knows how to add two integers and yield an integer, or do a comparison on integers and yield a flag [or integer depending on hardware!], or...
@pixelherodev@RL_Dane
I skipped a bit of the thread 'cause I was zoning out from the technical details, but this message taken on its own sounds like something ChatGPT could do. ;)
@pixelherodev@RL_Dane
Yeah, that was mostly to address to the people who don't think there are ethical issues; basically it was a "don't argue the ethics with me; even without factoring that in it's a bad idea."
@RL_Dane@benjaminhollon Basically, computers are REALLY FUCKING FAST. Even a rpi3, or the pbp, or...
I figure that I want to actually make use of a tiny fraction of that performance for something I consider far more meaningful than the ways it's usually used.
I'd probably use my garbage collection library for this, and implement it in C, but configured to effectively run a GC pass either every ten minutes or when an allocation would otherwise cause an OOM, to avoid wakeups.
It's just that strings can be automatically converted to other types as needed by context.
Try using it as a number? It's parsed. Try using it as a tuple of a date, a duration, and a distance? It's tokenized and each field is parsed. Try using it as a type which can be derived from a (date, duration, distance)? It's first converted to the 3-tuple, then that's converted to the final type.
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