Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Immutable Granular Addressability: Rehash?
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Peter Jones wrote: (01)
> Comment: On the assumption that I've understood what you're saying properly...
>
> It looks like a node has to know its version history list, its parent(s), and
> its position(s) in any parent-children list(s). (02)
Some of that can be determined by queries in the database: not all the
information needs to be on node. Or at least not on it directly. (03)
> O...K... (sounds a lot like Lee Iverson's NODAL) (04)
Yes, it does. (05)
I'm probably going to be spending some time next week, if I'm lucky,
comparing NODAL with Entities in KnownSpace to see if KnownSpace can
accomplish some of the same things. (06)
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