On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:36 AM, rengel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This discussion reminds me of some other attempt, to create a 'universal > data structure': Ted Nelson's ZigZag: > Thanks for these links. Yes, I thought my Aha was important, but at present I don't see much use for multi-colored threads. They look like a solution in search of a problem. Otoh, the "perfect problem" might exist :-) Instead, I keep coming back to how important the clone-find commands are. They solve all the problems that I actually have. Still, there may be other problems for which the clone-find commands aren't the solution... So we can ask, what problems might be suited to multi-threaded trees, or to zzstructures? Multi-thread trees aren't exactly general graphs, which are, in fact, the most *general* data structure. But generality does not equal power. Instead, the additional structure provided by multi-thread trees is not a limitation, but instead a source of additional power. In short, I suspect there are good reasons why neither zzstructures nor multi-threaded trees suggest great new applications. If you know of any, please let me know. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
