No more automagic inheritance

I wonder if automagic inheritance of parameters is really too
expensive (in terms of language complexity) to justify.

If someone gives you this shell script:

  #!/bin/bash
  ls

You can't pass parameters to 'ls' when you run it. You have to modify
the script:

  #!/bin/bash
  ls "$@"

Perhaps if someone gives you this pipeline

  <p:pipeline>
    <p:xslt/>
  </p:pipeline>

we should just accept that you can't pass parameters to the p:xslt step
unless you modify the pipeline:

  <p:pipeline>
    <p:xslt parameters="{$parameters}"/>
  </p:pipeline>

I don't know. Alternatively, I guess we could say that the set of parameters
passed to a step that has an undeclared parameters binding is implementation
defined.

The implementors could invent mechanisms for passing them in.


  calabash ... -p p:xslt/$initial-mode=fred

I don't know.

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                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
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