The Old New Thing

July 2004 - Page 5 of 5 - The Old New Thing

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

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

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

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