On the second question, PIG-3136 did something similar with a little extra syntax.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Aniket Mokashi <aniket...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found out today that: > a = store b into 'something'; > is a valid statement in pig. > > Is that expected? Should we open a jira to flag error for such a syntax? > Optionally, we can officially support above syntax and allow doing > something meaningful with a later on. > > On a side note, we can make all the statements except load have optional > aliases (just a thought)- > So, essentially, > foreach b generate something; > would be equivalent to > b = foreach b generate something; > > [May be there is some discussion about this on some jira, I haven't tried > to search]. > > Thanks, > Aniket >
