Re: Auxiliary documents

Norman Walsh wrote:
> Oooh! I don't know. That strikes at the heart of the "foward chaining"
> vs. "backward chaining" question. My current thinking is that the
> pipeline processor should be able to look at the pipeline and
> determine an order before it begins execution.

OK, that's reasonable. I think it means that (to remain side-effect 
free) processors will need to error when there's a dependency between 
steps that can't be identified by looking at the pipeline document.

Cheers,

Jeni
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Received on Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:21:40 UTC