Re: Traffic lights and language design

2001-05-04 Thread Nathan Wiger
* Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/04/2001 15:51]: > > Oddly enough, varying the number of traffic lights can effect > efficiency. By over-regulating you can choke off traffic. Constant > fiddling with the setups and timings, trying to control each and every > intersection to maximize t

Traffic lights and language design

2001-05-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
Excuse me, I'm going to ramble a bit about traffic lights and see if something interesting falls out. I was riding to work today and started thinking about the trouble we were having with string concatination (no, this isn't another concat proposal) and how the basic problem is that we've run ou