Gil, I do something similar, for the same reason, but without using HOLE as the first stage:
PIPE (END ? NAME whatever) , | stage 1 , | stage 2 , ... That makes it very easy to add a stage before the first stage (e.g JEREMY). Mike Walter Aon Service Corporation The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not necessarily those of my employer. -----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 08:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Output to the bit bucket On 2015-07-08, at 06:15, Kris Buelens wrote: >> HOLE is what I am looking for. > Or, as illustrated in other reactions, HOLE is what you simply don't > need for the primary output of LOOKUP. In such a case HOLE is pure > overhead > I sometimes use HOLE as an initial stage merely to simplify editing of portrait-style pipelines: PIPE hole , | append foo , | append bar , | append wombat , /* etc. */ ... so I can shuffle/insert/delete stages with no worry about pesky dangling "|" and ",". (No, I don't pay for CPU cycles. And silicon is cheaper than carbon.) -- gil
