Re: script generation

["Harvey S. Liszt" <hliszt@nrao.edu>]

How about having a general set of replaceable variables and some ability
in the scripting language to retrieve "information" from "outside" and
to
and store its values in those variables?  As soon as the "external"
variables 
are named in the script language a lot of rigidity is built into the
system.

regards, Harvey
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Steve Scott wrote:
> 
> At our meeting today Mel raised the issue of having atmospheric
> variables available as globals to the scripting language to be used
> for dynamic scheduling and flow control. This seems like a good
> idea and I would add a small list of variables produced by the
> pipeline, such as:
>   noise in the map
>   flux - mean, min, max
>   snr  - mean, min, max
> 
> If global variables are used and the LO setup could be moved into
> the realtime system, would that eliminate the need to regenerate
> the scripts (by the operator or automatically) to make sure they
> are up to date?
> 
> Steve


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