- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000
- To: Alex Miłowski <alex@milowski.com>
- Cc: XProc WG <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
Alex Miłowski writes:
> I went there too but inputs are like function arguments and outputs
> are like returns.
>
> I'll make the additional observation that our steps are more like
> closures where we bind options to step invocations and make something
> that operations on inputs and produces outputs.
I'm with you on closures, but not on distinguishing i/o from options. I
expect to be able to set options from variables, whose value in turn
comes from some pipe.
ht
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