examples

In the twitter demo, I noticed this pathological looking string concat statement https://github.com/s4/examples/blob/master/twittertopiccount... Im too dim to figure out why it would be done this way (besides the fact thats its an early proof of concept demo). Any idea?

Here are some examples: https://github.com/s4/examples Sure enough, there is a Twitter example.

This has some examples https://github.com/s4/examples

The Github repo has an example application: https://github.com/s4/examples/tree/master/twittertopiccount... It's a twitter topic counter: "This application detects popular hashtags on Twitter by listening to the Twitter gardenhose." From http://labs.yahoo.com/event/99 : "S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data. Keyed data events are routed with affinity to Processing Elements (PEs), which consume the events and do one or both of the following: (1) emit one or more events which may be consumed by other PEs, (2) publish results. The architecture resembles the Actors model [1], providing semantics of encapsulation and location transparency, thus allowing applications to be massively c