Initial is a specific case of dynamic

[emil14]

Don't know where to put this but want to write down.

I was revisiting FBP's IIPs and came out with this though - initial (happened once, at startup) things (messages sent) are just specific case of dynamic (message sent over and over). I mean, at a level of language there's almost no need (probably except main component and its inports) to introduce feature (I'm not talking about once component right now) for doing something "once" (like FBP's IIP (I'm not actually sure if that's the way they are but let's suppose that)). Instead you could just do by yourself things the way you want - so they happen once.

E.g. inport cfg - if you don't need dynamic configuration just make sure your msg sent once to that channel. There's must be lots of ways of ensuring it e.g. once component (not implemented yet and not even designed honestly) or using main's inports or something else like maybe trigger, etc.

[emil14]

Well, yes. But do we need this discussion?