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Logic arc replication #139

Open cannin opened 13 years ago

cannin commented 13 years ago

Can logic nodes be duplicated? Does that have any meaning?

Reported by: stumoodie

cannin commented 13 years ago

Original comment by: lenov

cannin commented 13 years ago

I don't see any logical problem with duplicating a logic node. Except an increased clutter of the map. If all the input and all the output are the same this literally brings no information at all. So the interpretation of the graph would be absolutely identical with or without the duplication. Since we forbid the duplication of processes, I strongly doubt that anyone would consciously duplicate logic nodes. But if they do, a software should be allowed to remove all the duplicates as part of a tidying procedure.

Original comment by: lenov

hasanbalci commented 3 months ago

We currently allow duplication of logic nodes but it seems that the question here is whether to use clone markers or not. (See section 3.5.3 Cloning).