Re: A proposal to restructure our top-level syntax

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Alessandro Vernet writes:


> I am unconvinced. I think it makes sense to use the same syntax to
> declare "top-level" pipelines (initially intended by the pipeline
> author to be called from the command line) and a "reusable" pipelines
> (intended by the pipeline author to be called by other pipelines).

I guess the counterbalance to this (indeed reasonable) point is that
we have evolved the language to the point where pipelines really are
steps, and using declare-step to make a subpipeline callable seems
very natural.

ht
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