On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:28:44PM -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> I wish it were just an implementation issue.
> If we are going to support this in the protocol then:
> 1) We need a mechanism explicitly in the protocol to say "use this
> template".
> 2) We need to include templates in the set of things we model.

+1

One of the cases in the pending architecture doc refresh (don't recall if
it's in the existing version) is effectively "copy constructor" behavior for
templates.  

If we had the equivalent of configured state that was scoped to not commit
(yes, obviously ugly but potentially another one of those side data stores
we have been talking about), then you have identified objects that are
"committed" somewhere (not impacting running state) that can be referenced
for such a copy constructor.  Effectively, a form of template.

-- Jeff

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