Re: A proposal to restructure our top-level syntax

Henri,

I find your proposal very appealing, but the fact of loosing recursive
pipeline is too big a loss for me

Can we lighten this behaviour ?

Mohamed

On Nov 30, 2007 4:13 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

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> So the two things that you lose on my proposal are the ability to
> write a single recursive pipeline (because <p:pipeline> is untyped, on
> my proposal, so there's no way to call it), and the ability to import
> a single pipeline document.
>
> Following the programming language analogy which partly informed my
> proposal, here's a further step, which doesn't change the proposal in
> any detail, but solves those two problems:
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> <p:pipeline>
>  ...
> </p:pipeline>
>
> is just an abbreviation for
>
> <p:pipeline-library>
>  <p:declare-step type="main">
>  <p:input port="!source" primary="yes"/> <!-- iff no primary input
>                                                declared in the original-->
>  <p:output port="!result" primary="yes"/> <!-- iff no primary output
>                                                declared in the original-->
>  ...
>  </p:declare-step>
> </p:pipeline-library>
>
> And we say that running a pipeline library defaults to running the
> step whose type is 'main'.
>
> So now you can write a single recursive pipeline (it has a type you
> can use to call it with now, namely 'main'), and you can import single
> pipelines, because they are _really_ libraries after all.
>
> ht
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