Re: [spam][crazy][log] idea: relearning to write code

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let's look just around the area where the assertion is raised.

the debugger is actually paused there right now.

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 56                                 assert length > 0
 57                                 yield index, header, stream, length
 58                                 stream_output_offset += length
 59                     else:
 60                         print('skipping', index)
 61  ->                     assert index_offset_in_stream < stream_output_offset
 62                     index_offset_in_stream += index_subsize
 63                 else:
 64                     print('popping')
 65                     indices.pop()
 66             assert offset == total_size

index_offset_in_stream is its calculation of where in the overall
stream the current index spot is.

i expanded the index format so that it could reference data from other
streams, or other parts in its stream, for arbitrary purposes. so the
approach currently tries to retain a reference to where it is in the
particular stream it got there from.

stream_output_offset is how much of the stream it has written. the
approach to keep them separate let me reuse part of the previous
algorithm loop, getting farther before i spazzed out.