Re: On parameters

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I can certainly live with this, and I agree that the basic analysis is
correct, but I have a few residual concerns:

1) We are grabbing another port name for pipeline use;
2) I'm not sure about the whole defaulting situation. . .

Let's look at the latter a bit.  At least one possible story would be:

 a) If a step-type is not declared to take a 'parameters' input, then
    an instance of that step only sees parameters explicitly specified
    with <p:parameter> directly within that instance;

 b) If a step-type is declared to take a 'parameters' input, and a
    binding for that port is given on an instance of that step, then
    that instance sees all and only the parameters presented on that
    port and the parameters explicitly specified with <p:parameter>
    directly within that instance (and the latter take precedence);

 c) If a step-type is declared to take a 'parameters' input, and no
    binding for that port is given on an instance of that step, then
    that instance sees all and only the #pipeline-parameters and the
    parameters explicitly specified with <p:parameter> directly within
    that instance (and the latter take precedence).

So you can 'protect' a step _type_, by not declaring a 'parameters'
input for it, but if a step type _is_ declared to have a 'parameters'
input port, then you have to do

  <p:input port="parameters">
   <p:empty/>
  </p:input>

to 'protect' an _instance_ of such a step type.  I guess I think
that's about right.

ht
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Received on Thursday, 14 June 2007 11:08:22 UTC