On 16 Apr 2014, at 00:18, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> Decider sounds like it could work also as a name, although it seems from > dataflow like work its called a switch or gate, either or I guess. That’s fine. It doesn’t matter too much to me personally. > As far as the micro-language: > > So there are typically 2 types of DSL's that occur, internal and external. > > An internal DSL is like http://martinfowler.com/bliki/InternalDslStyle.html, > taskflow is already a micro-DSL internal to python (mistral is an external > DSL[1]). To me there is a drawback of becoming to much of a DSL (internal or > external) in that it requires a lot of new learning (imho internal DSLs are > easier to pick-up since they take advantage of the surrounding languages > capabilities, in this case python). So that’s what I just want to keep in our > minds that we need to make it simple *enough*, or we will die a nasty death > of complexity :-P > > [1] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html Ok, got it. Thanks. I’m just still not sure why you emphasize on that micro-language thing. IMO terms like that can scary people :) In fact, this ‘switch’ (or decider, or whatever) is just an additional API which can be used to alter flow behavior.
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