"Recompute with...", or: a way to "climb the ladder of abstraction"

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There was some related discussion in this thread. One thought I’ve had since then is that you can do something along these lines via the notebook imports.

Suppose you have a notebook named myNotebook containing this cell:

cell = {
  // some code depending on cells input1, input2
}

Now, share myNotebook and take note of its version number N.

You can now write:

import {cell as cellCopy} with {newInput1 as input1, newInput2 as input2} from `myNotebook@N`

(Without pinning the version, the notebook will fail to work…)

See this little notebook for this idea in action:

It should be possible to generalize this to more complicated dependency chains (though I agree with the posters in the above-linked thread that having this sort of thing more “built-in” would be cool to see…)

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