Re: Alternative to x!y

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I _really_ don't want to use ->, it's just semantically wrong (the
step doesn't _produce_ or _yield_ the port, the step scopes the port),
as well as somehow crossing some microparsing boundary I don't want to
cross.

I'm not unhappy with !, but if people aren't, what about using . and
requiring no . in step or port names?

Or, if I can suppress my microparsing concerns, what about x[y] ?

But, the longer this goes on, the harder I find it to repress my
"Having trouble designing a micro-syntax?  XML has the answer, it's
called _markup_!" reflex response in this sort of situation.   So why
not
 <p:input port="document">
  <pipe step="x" port="y"/>
 </p:input>

possibly shortened to
 <p:input port="document" source="x" sourcePort="y"/>

ht
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