Parameterized Bicep variables imports

[nonsocode]

In Bicep, variables can be defined as result of parameters

param connector string
param maxReplicas int

var resourceNames = [for i in range(1, maxReplicas): 'resource-${connector}-${i}']

Bicep also supports import syntax for variables, functions and modules and extensions. Since it's perfectly valid for variables to be based on parameters, it would be nice to be able to define these types variables even when they are declared in a different bicep file

// main.bicep
import * as vars from './variables' with {
  suffix: connector
  count: maxReplicas
}

param maxReplicas int
param string connector

resource myFoo 'My.Namespace/resource@2023-11-01' = [for name in vars.resourceNames: {
  name: name
  properties: {}
}]

The variables file could be defined as

// We use a new proposed keyword `input` since this is a compile time feature
input number = 1 
input suffix

@export()
var resourceNames = [for i in range(1, maxReplicas): 'resource-${connector}-${i}']

[GABRIELNGBTUC]

Personally I feel it would needlessly complicate compile time imports with little added value.

Maybe it's just that the example is too simple but from what I see, user defined functions already fill that gap and this example is the equivalent of doing:

imported file:

@export()
func getResourceNames(maxReplicas int, connector string) array => map(range(1, maxReplicas), i => 'resource-${connector}-${i}')

main.bicep:

import * as vars from './variables.bicep' 
param maxReplicas int
param  connector string

resource myFoo 'My.Namespace/resource@2023-11-01' = [for name in vars.getResourceNames(maxReplicas, connector): {
  name: name
  properties: {}
}]