On Feb 12, 5:49 am, chiang <[email protected]> wrote: > Turner, looks like I was not the only one confused by the terminology > used in the white paper with what I have been seeing in the source > code!:)
Indeed. It sounds like the whitepaper is in need of some revision. Do you know if there's an updated whitepaper out there that I should be looking at? > "skip" operation is not implemented. Instead "retain" > operation is used, which seems more self-explanatory. Position is not > associated with each operation, which I think is why "retain" is > needed in this case. Yes, but why not have position associated with each operation? It seems a much easier and straightforward implementation that way. > > On Feb 12, 2:08 am, Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Maybe. I was going by the terminology > > inhttp://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform, but it > > lists anti-element operations, which are apparently nixed now, so I > > may be using out-of-date terminology. > > > On Feb 11, 8:14 pm, Tad Glines <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Do you mean the "retain" operation? > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm not entirely sure that I understand the point of the skip > > > > operation. I guess that it's used in order to get other operations to > > > > start at the appropriate place in the wavelet. But this isn't > > > > necessary if each operation has a position associated with it, right? > > > > Why is a Skip operation preferable? > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "Wave Protocol" 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 > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" 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/wave-protocol?hl=en.
