Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1483#issuecomment-170044112
The user code should not deal with what channel an element came from. It
wires assumptions about the parallelism of the predecessor into the user code.
Adjustments of the parallelism become impossible that way.
Why does the storm compatibility need this?
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