Re: Runtime semantics of p:try

"Toman_Vojtech@emc.com" <Toman_Vojtech@emc.com> writes:
> Now, ehm, I just found another passage in the spec that seems to have
> the same problem (Section 2, Pipeline Concepts):
>
> "A pipeline must behave as if it evaluated each step each time it
> occurs."
>
> Again, the sentence does not take multi-container steps into account.

How so? The step, be it p:identity or p:choose, is evaluated each time
it occurs. In the case of p:choose, not all of the subpipelines are
evaluated each time, but we don't claim they have to be. Or am I
confused again?

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Received on Wednesday, 7 October 2009 11:41:08 UTC