Josiah, I think the idea of immutable and mutable relationships is importiant. In fact some relationships are mutable in ways people do not think off for example genetics can expose a different genetic father. I think tentative relationships could have value e.g. he is my father in marriage and by default my genetic father but these are two relationships. One which can change with new information.
At first it seems almost chaotic but there is one scale against which we can align everything possible and that is time. Birth and death dates but also marriage, defacto and divorce some of which have extended meaning such as my mothers remarriage is also the date I may become a step child. Relationships can have start and end dates including be reestablished. However valuable time is to order many things including the changing of relationships over time it becomes even more important to handle fuzzy or missing values. Bimlas my point about the kin operator is it can be used to achieve these objectives. It could be better to enhance the kin operator than write a new one. But this is your choice. Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1b1e14ad-a03c-4832-bc90-08de723d5cf4%40googlegroups.com.
