On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Edward K. Ream <edream...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was wondering if they are useful in user space. They seem like Leo >> bookkeeping. Presumably the user can break persistence by editing in that >> tree? > > Leo has *lots* of nodes that are bookkeeping, including all settings > nodes, @button nodes, @chapters, etc. etc. etc.
I consider these to be me telling Leo things. @persistent seems to be Leo talking to itself. There is no real > alternative: it would be a nightmare to store persistence data as uAs, > for several reasons: > > - The data would not be human readable. - what is the reason for human readable? it's unclear what a human can use the @persistent tree for other than to break things. > - The code would have to treat persistence uAs differently from normal uAs. Don't understand that one. > > The Leonine way is to use uA's only for special purposes. It would be > quite wrong, imo, to use uAs as hidden notes or to contain most other > valuable data. Almost by definition, valuable data should be > contained in visible nodes. Yes, there could be exceptions, but they > truly *are* exceptions. > > Edward > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
