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Re: [zzdev] Re: :zzSig: Containment dims (was Re2: Questions
Thanks, all, for including me in this discussion again.
Yes, I would very much like to again be part of it.
Please count me in. But use
disneylogic@xxxxxxxxxxx
as my e-mail address of choice. I get it in more places,
and it's far better than Yahoo!. Not in Micronesia, either.
It's an Australian invention.
"A mind stretched by a great new idea
never returns again to its former dimensions."
-- Jan
P.S. What d'ya all think of that old scrooge Ellison, eh?
See, e.g.,
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/05/06/software.debate.reut/
He needs to be surprised. (;-)}
On Wed, 7 May 2003 00:23:30 +1000, "Andrew Pam" <xanni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:53:32PM -0700, Ted Nelson wrote:
> > (A depth setting has been suggested as a way to prevent
> > accidental runaway perpetual loops; but if you *want*
> > this mechanism to allow perpetual loops, well, we can
> > discuss it :)
>
> When rendering contained cells, my implementation uses a temporary list
> of cells already part of the containment structure and never follows a
> connection that leads to a cell already included earlier. This allows
> arbitrary depths without looping, but of course it is only one possible
> implementation; there could be situations in which looping to a fixed
> depth is preferable.
[snip]
--
Jan Theodore Galkowski (o°)
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