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I think it would be very useful if there were a way to box other boxes, possibly designating specifc ones as the input/outputs of the big box.

Bonus: if you collapse a box, it becomes a black box.

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Check out Tangible Functional Programming by Conal Elliott for an interesting take on this approach

http://conal.net/papers/Eros/

yes! This is what I'm exploring next, composability. One idea is to make "big boxes" like you describe. The other approach is to make canvases have special input/output pane and the ability to reference/run other canvases.

Although my interface doesn't wire nodes together, you might find the way I embedded spatial interfaces within each other (recursively) at https://beta.mindcast.com to be of interest for your exploration.

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