Open mschubert opened 6 years ago
The downside is that you sometimes want to use files relative to PWD. In fact, I’d guess that this is the most common use-case for data files, definitely always with user-provided files. Consider:
sys = mod::use(klmr/sys)
sys$run({
io = mod::use(ebits/io)
args = sys$cmd$parse(arg('file', 'input file'))
sys$printf('%s', summary(io$read_table(args$file)))
})
NB: this issue is probably 2 years old, I just copied them from the other repository and they will need to be cleaned up further. We didn't have a sys
module back then.
And yes, this is true for command-line interfaces, but usually not for modules providing API access to data. But you're right, the better way to simplify module-relative file access is probably https://github.com/klmr/modules/issues/132
This would make sure that read/write is always relative to the script the call resides in.
Any downsides?