Patrick Magee

I honestly think that aliasing was one of my poorer decisions. If we could retcon the `struct` change I would probably allow proper namespacing in the identifiers. This would completely...

@jdidion thanks for putting this together. I think this would definitely be a use-ability improvement for a lot of tasks that do not depend on the bash interpreter. In the...

So I had the opportunity to get into using a bit of nextflow. How they solve this problem is pretty simple, they simply use a shebang line! We could emulate...

@rhpvorderman this is slightly different. That is calling the python command using a heredoc, but the underlyng script is still treated as a bash script. Whereas the shebang is indicating...

I think the question here is really what does the type alias hope to accomplish that proper naming of the variable would not? IMO if you are using the type...

@nh13 types of a variable givce information on how an object / variable can be used. But Not necessarily what it should be used for. Generally when developping even in...

I like this as its sticking to the convention used in the `command` block. The only problem I can see is that the value of the property in meta and...

Bringing in @mlin to this conversation. He had a great suggestion as an additional way that we could help test and propel features into the specificaion. It seems they will...

Implementing WDL bindings in java for `wdl4j` has actually casused me to run into a heck of a lot of issues similar to what @orodeh is describing. There some very...

@pgrosu your confidence in us is comforting, but I am not to sure you are going to find any sort of formal proofs, or documentation on coherence. If this is...