Semantic DB SW Experiments

Today we have added a new feature, called "SW Experiments", designed to save some time when you are experimenting with a new idea, and trying to implement it in .sw. In particular, when this involves more than one file to load and process. Say you want to reset the current context, load a file, run that file, load another file, run that one too, then dump the result. Then repeat all those steps until you have the code working as you desire. So, we introduce a new file type, the sw-experiment with extension .swe. When you run a tab in the edit panel and it has extension .swe it will parse it using the new experiment "language". If the file has any other extension, then it will run as normal.

The available commands:

-- some comment

any line that starts with -- is a comment, and can be used to explain your experiment to readers

context Fred Sam friends

sets the current context to "Fred Sam friends"

load bottles-of-beer.sw3

opens a file dialog to load the given sw file

save foo.sw4

saves the current context to the given filename

webload http://semantic-db.org/sw-examples/george.sw

opens a remote sw file

run bottles-of-beer.sw3

runs the tab with the given filename

dump

dumps the current context

reset

resets the current context

reset all

resets the context list back to starting state

save-as-dot foo.dot

saves the current context in dot format to the given filename, so it can be graphed using graphviz

exit

stop processing the current experiment, useful for when you are not quite ready to run the "tail end" of an experiment. Then comment this command out when you are ready.