Re: How to run unconnected steps in sequence?

  Op 1-11-2010 15:12, Philip Fennell schreef:
>
> Now, if you were looking for a means of explicitly defining that the 
> two steps were to run sequentially then, as I’ve suggested previously, 
> I believe you could build an XProc processor that supported the use of 
> SMIL Timesheets to indicate whether steps should execute either 
> sequentially or in parallel: ...
>
>
Interesting idea. I stumbled upon similar problems a couple of weeks ago 
while trying to serialize a couple of home-brew database steps and 
http-request steps. Although explicitly defining the order of steps 
would be an option, I was reasoning a more functional programming 
language design for I/O, such as Haskells Monads [1] to make it possible 
to compose multiple I/O operations. The problems with XProc 
serialization seems to be a genuine concern, as all the current 
solutions could be seen as kludges.

[1] Simon L. Peyton Jones, Philip Wadler - Imperative functional 
programming (1993) - 
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/imperative/imperative.ps)



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