Thank you Matthias. I highly agree with your idea about having a default
specification similar to R WRT the function signatures for default values.
This becomes a significant issue for some of our algorithms, where they
might take in 10 arguments but default values are should typically be used
for 6+ or 7+ of the arguments.
Deron
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> well, for arguments passed into dml scripts there is of course ifdef($b, 2)
> but for functions there is indeed no good support. At runtime level we
> still support default parameters for scalar arguments at the tail of the
> parameter list but I guess at one point the corresponding parser support
> was discontinued.
>
> I personally would like a default specification similar to R in the
> function signature with the corresponding function calls that bind values
> to a subset of parameters.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Deron Eriksson <deroneriks...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to set default parameter values using DML? I believe both
> R
> > and Python offer this capability.
> >
> > The only solution I could come up with using DML is to pass in a variable
> > that is NaN and cast this to a string and use this string in an if
> > conditional statement.
> >
> > addone = function(double b) return (double a) {
> > c = ''+b;
> > if (c == 'NaN') {
> > b = 2.0
> > }
> > a = b + 1;
> > }
> >
> > z=0.0/0.0;
> > x = addone(z);
> > print(x);
> > y = addone(4.0);
> > print(y);
> >
> > Is there a cleaner way to accomplish this, or is DML lacking this R
> > feature?
> >
> > Deron
> >
> > --
> > Deron Eriksson
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> > http://www.spark.tc/
> >
>
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