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Explicit (fail reason) values flow downstream as data and are inspected with failed?/fail-reason — distinct from raised exceptions (retry/try-catch territory). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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flow-on-sx Scoreboard
All tests pass: 30 / 30 across 2 suites.
bash lib/flow/conformance.sh
Per-suite breakdown
| Suite | Passing | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| basic | 18 | Phase 1: single nodes, linear sequence, data-flow threading, defflow, parallel fan/join, nested composition, publish-shaped flow |
| control | 12 | Phase 2: branch conditional (6); error model fail/failed?/fail-reason failure values that flow as data (6) |
Architecture
Flow combinators are a Scheme prelude (lib/flow/spec.sx) loaded onto
scheme-standard-env. A flow is a Scheme procedure input -> output. The whole
flow executes inside the Scheme interpreter, so Phase 3's suspend (call/cc) will
capture the flow continuation directly.
lib/flow/spec.sx— combinators:flow-node,flow-id,flow-const,sequence,parallel,defflow;flow-load-combinators!.lib/flow/api.sx—flow/start(Scheme);flow-make-env,flow-run,flow-run-in(SX helpers).lib/flow/tests/basic.sx— 18 cases.lib/flow/conformance.sh— loads substrate + flow layer, runs suites.
Semantics notes
- node = 1-arg Scheme procedure; the upstream value is the argument. A node ignoring its argument is effectively a thunk.
- sequence threads left-to-right; empty sequence = identity.
- parallel fans the same input to every branch and joins results into a list. Evaluation is sequential for now; true concurrency arrives in Phase 3.
Phases
- Phase 1 — Declarative DAG + sequential execution (combinators + 18 tests,
flow/start) - [~] Phase 2 — Control flow + error handling (
branch, error model done) - Phase 3 — Suspend / resume (the showcase)
- Phase 4 — Distributed nodes via fed-sx