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Subject: Labelled Flows
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:48:21 -0400
From: fantasai
To: Bert Bos
Hi Bert,
I'm going through the minutes from the Sophia F2F,
and seeing your comments about a pull model and
labelling flows. I remember them being very important
and interesting, but the minutes aren't very clear!
I was wondering if you could explain more what you
had in mind? :)
(Btw, this was my interpretation:
<fantasai> Note to self: elt { flow-name: foo;
elt2 { content: extract-flow(foo) | copy-flow(foo) |
continue-flow(foo); }
elt is the source of the content. It is labelled with 'flow-name'.
elt2 wants to use elt as its contents. It has a few options:
extract-flow(foo) does what flow-from does today: it steals
the content from elt, leaving it empty
copy-flow(foo) does what dauwhe was proposing through flow-policy:
it copies the content from elt, without affecting elt
continue-flow(foo) extracts only overflowing content from elt (or
whoever stole its contents).
Don't remember what I was thinking wrt multiple source elements...)
~fantasai
