On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Doing some more archaeology... > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Edward K. Ream<[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> This seems like something of an oversimplification to me. The topology > >> of vnodes defines the context in which your referencing a tnode. > > > > Yes, you are correct. I misspoke. Vnodes *used to* correspond to nodes > on > > the screen, but that is ancient history. > > Ah, so this explains existence of vnodes - they were analogous to > positions before , but this analogy was removed at some point > (effectively making vnodes redundant). Yes, you could put it that way. The key picture was fingers holding beans. The fingers are positions; the beans; vnodes. This allows the *combination* of positions and vnodes to do what was previously done by vnodes and tnodes. Thus, the unified node world was born. Edward --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
