On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:37:01AM -0500, David T-G
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> % 1 foo
> % 2 |-?->bar
> % 3 | `->baz
> % 4 |->grault
> % 5 `->quux
> %
> % if $sort_aux is set to date, it is possible that bar is before grault
> % and quux, but baz is after both of them. So with the question mark
> % removed, the thread tree would look like
> %
> % 1 foo
> % 2 |->bar
> % 3 |->baz
> % 4 |->grault
> % 5 `->quux
> %
> % and baz would appear to be in the wrong place. Additionally,
>
> Why wouldn't it be
>
> 1 foo
> 2 |->bar
> 3 | `->baz
> 4 |->grault
> 5 |->quux
>
> instead? Or is the answer simply "that's the way the code is written"?
>
> Thanks for the example, though; I'm still working on it :-)
The answer is "because that would be even more of a lie." Baz isn't a
child of bar. I know we do this for duplicates, for lack of anything
better to do, but we mark it, at least.
-Daniel
--
Daniel E. Eisenbud
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"We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of
undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed
hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
--Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
