Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python

by puremachinery • 11 years ago

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rem7• 11 years ago

mejari• 11 years ago

Not sure I understand the problem. If each submission is interesting in and of themselves, does it matter if the source is the same?

erdewit• 11 years ago

Why not use a bitemporal data model instead, it's cleaner and easier to reason about.

leni536• 11 years ago

I think it would be the "naive" implementation. For specific data structures more efficient specific algorithms can be written.

pandler• 11 years ago

Can anyone give an example of a use case for this?

Semiapies• 11 years ago

I'd be rather curious; this is an interesting concept.

gergoerdi• 11 years ago

bmn_• 11 years ago

Perl did time-travelling variables first, namely in 2007: Positronic::Variables

This in the picture is Conway giving the talk.

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