John Didion

+1 I added this to the roadmap

@mlin I like the table! I think it also helps to provide the explicit reminder that `Int? x` is equivalent to `Int? x = None`, so it doesn't matter whether...

I do understand the desire for a work-around. I don't think it's very often the case that a default value changes, or that one person is using another person's "library"...

> The abbreviated passthrough syntax only applies where the workflow input has exactly the same name. Right, that should address the primary use case, which is when my task has...

@patmagee I'm definitely sympathetic to your POV. But I think what @mlin is getting at is that it's a commonly used pattern to have a common task that is called...

Actually, considering further, if we make the semantics of `?=` be "evaluate the right-hand-side and, if it results in an error or a value of `None`, do not assign the...

Wow - talk about the worst of both worlds - allowing `None` for a non-optional value and ignoring setting the value to `None` for an optional value. To resolve this...

I suggest updating @mlin affiliation

I believe you're referring to https://github.com/openwdl/wdl/blob/1c2f801d03df9aca4d4984726c98c54874d9ed23/versions/1.1/SPEC.md#task-input-localization

Is this more clear? "Two input files that have the same parent location must be localized into the same directory for task execution. For example, `http://foo.com/bar/a.txt` and `http://foo.com/bar/b.txt` have the...