Re: Should defaulted ports be named?

Hum...not sure it falls in the same category

Can you give an example where referencing them could lead to confusion ?

Mohamed

On Nov 7, 2007 4:56 PM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> / Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
> | The defaulted output port of a subpipeline is given the name "result".
> | And the defaulted input and output ports of a pipeline (if we keep them)
> | are given the names "source" and "result".
> |
> | Since the purpose of these is to simplify the very basic case of
> | straight-line pipelines, wouldn't it be better for them to have
> | unusable names such as "!result"?
>
> Yes, I think so. Just as we gave anonymous steps unreferenceable names.
>
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