Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python
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Re: Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python
#2might want to space these csvoss submissions out a bit
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#3why don't you guys stop stalking github.com/csvoss already?
Third post of the day:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117612
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114969
Re: Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python
#4Why not use a bitemporal data model instead, it's cleaner and easier to reason about.
Re: Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python
#5why don't you guys stop stalking github.com/csvoss already? Third post of the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114969
Not sure I understand the problem. If each submission is interesting in and of themselves, does it matter if the source is the same?
Re: Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python
#6Why not use a bitemporal data model instead, it's cleaner and easier to reason about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
I think it would be the "naive" implementation. For specific data structures more efficient specific algorithms can be written.
Re: Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python
#7Can anyone give an example of a use case for this?
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#8Can anyone give an example of a use case for this?
I'd be rather curious; this is an interesting concept.
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#9You can also do time-travelling control structures: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tardis-0.3.0.0/docs/Cont...
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#10Perl did time-travelling variables first, namely in 2007: Positronic::Variables
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gunnarwolf/1343377956/
This in the picture is Conway giving the talk.