Quick numeric summary returned after processing files

[federicomarini]

Idea: to have a quick numeric summary returned after processing files

Rationale: often one might overlook what happened and "just takes" the output. Exposing a compact summary of what was retained/filtered out can help to be aware of parameter values.

Implementation: could be a combination of message calls, that e.g. can be printed out to console without messing around with the returned output 😉

[kgaonkar6]

Good idea! Do you have any suggestions as to how to go about doing this efficiently?

[federicomarini]

I'll dig a little into the code of the specific function and try to give some pointers.

Otherwise, to elaborate a little more on the idea:

• dimensions of what was provided as input -> dimensions of what is output
• what happens to this input file, also with simple message calls
• maybe some short overview statistics on how many functions got assigned to this or this other category

[kgaonkar6]

Thanks for looking into it!