I agree this would be useful for debugging, but I'd go about it a different
way. Rather than add new syntax as you propose, it seems we could easily
create an inline loader, so your script would look something like:
A = load '{(Hello), (World)}' using InlineLoader();
dump A;
Alan.
On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Michael Malak wrote:
> I'm new to Pig, and it looks like there is no provision to declare relations
> inline in a Pig script (without LOADing from an external file)?
>
> Based on
> http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.7.0/piglatin_ref2.html#Constants
> I would have thought the following would constitute "Hello World" for Pig:
>
> A = {('Hello'),('World')};
> DUMP A;
>
> But I get a syntax error. The ability to inline relations would be useful
> for debugging. Is this limitation by design, or is it just not implemented
> yet?
>
