[cells-devel] Next Steps

Thomas F. Burdick tfb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Mon May 9 13:26:08 UTC 2005


Kenny Tilton writes:

 > (b) eliminate the check for looping in which one setf of a cell leads 
 > back to setf of the same cell (the scroll bar scenario). I will leave 
 > the code behind in case I decide to simply enhance cycle detection as 
 > opposed to wiping it out entirely.

I think The Right Thing is to allow looping by default, assuming that
the programmer knows what they're doing, and to be able to optionally
declare a certain cell to be non-cyclic.



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