On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:05 AM, James Forrester <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, James Forrester <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <
> > > > [email protected] <javascript:;>>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > Flow stores the comments as a structured tree
> > > >
> > > > That seems a fundamental mistake. A discussion isn't a tree, it's a
> dag
> > > > at best. It's possible for a single comment in a discussion to refer
> to
> > > > zero or more earlier comments,
> > >
> > > Flow stores each discussion as a tree, with a Flow "Board" being a
> forest
> > > of discussions for precisely this reason.
> >
> > That takes care of the issues of replying to one comment (a new node in
> an
> > existing tree), zero comments (a new root node), but not multiple
> comments
> > (which would break the tree).
>
> Really?
>

Yes, really.


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