Dave Cunningham

Widening it to a variable is just as "bad" as widening it to an arbitrary expression, so if we were going to do anything it would be that. The property...

I suppose native extensions broke static analysis already :) Same as they do in Java etc.

If you were forced to write native functions to do things that were 1) pure and 2) relatively simple, like not regex matching or gzip compression or whatever, then there's...

So you have more than one dynamic config file, and you also need their filenames to be parameterized from outside of Jsonnet?

What if there was a way to give a list of files on the commandline, and have them all accessible internally as a dict keyed by filename? You can do...

@ant31 would that have helped for your original issue? @hausdorff what do you think? @dgarstang you once said you were continually bitten by this, what do you think?

@ant31 In your case only a complete computed import string would do then.

How do people feel about a separate commandline tool for turning directory contents into jsonnet import manifests? We could provide this like jsonnetfmt -- a separate tool but part of...

@alexei-matveev I'd actually be very fascinated to know why your attitude changed as it would give insight into how important this feature is

I added numbers, booleans, null with #199. I don't think we want to pass Jsonnet objects, functions, or arrays over, but JSON objects and arrays ought to work. The difference...