The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Why can’t I use the same tree item multiple times?

Why can’t I use the same tree item multiple times?

Raymond Chen July 1, 2004 Jul 1, 2004 07/1/04

It's the continuing balance between ease-of-use and generality. At a literal level, you can't use the same tree items in multiple places in the tree, because then various properties would become ambiguous, properties like TVGN_PARENT or TVIS_EXPANDED. (If a tree could be in two places, then it would have two parents, for example.) Of ...

What’s this fascination with Germanic languages?

What’s this fascination with Germanic languages?

Raymond Chen July 1, 2004 Jul 1, 2004 07/1/04

Some people wondered about my fascination with Germanic languages and asked why I didn't branch out to other language families. It's basically laziness. I grew up speaking English (and a little of the Holo dialect, most of which has by now vanished from disuse), then studied German in high school and college, and most recently added...

Why can't I use the same tree item multiple times?

Why can't I use the same tree item multiple times?

Raymond Chen July 1, 2004 Jul 1, 2004 07/1/04

It's the continuing balance between ease-of-use and generality. At a literal level, you can't use the same tree items in multiple places in the tree, because then various properties would become ambiguous, properties like TVGN_PARENT or TVIS_EXPANDED. (If a tree could be in two places, then it would have two parents, for example.) Of ...