*
 * <p>A step can be the input to at most one derived step. Once you transform its value, catch its
 * exception, or combine it with others, you cannot do anything else with it, including declare it
 * to be the last step of the pipeline.
 *
 * <h4>Transforming</h4>
 *
 * To derive the next step by asynchronously applying a function to an input step's value, call