On 3/18/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Perhaps it would be best to have, say, four different formats for
different classes of problems (with the understanding that most problems
are mixed).  E.g., some classes of problems are best represented via a
priority queue, others via a tree that can be alpha-beta pruned, etc.
For internal processing images might be best implemented via some
derivative of SVG, though the external representations a plausibly bit
maps.  Etc.


But datawise a priority queue is just a set of things with priority numbers
attached. The fact that you are going to _use_ it as a priority queue is a
property of the code module, not the data. Similarly, the alpha-beta
algorithm is, well, an algorithm - not a reason to create an incompatible
format. And see earlier comments about graphics being semantically
represented as logic, even if the implementation uses specialized data
structures for efficiency.

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