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Re: Tetrits and "stickiness"

Nate Hayes wrote:
> Michel Hack wrote:
> > In fact, programs DO care about both, at SEPARATE times.  A common
> > situation is a fast path that expects no exceptional cases, but
> > checks this assumption with a sticky check at the end so as to
> > repeat the routine using a slow but thoroughly-checked sequence.
>
> > Are you (and Ian) talking strictly about decorations,
> > or of bare intervals, as well?

This is strictly about decorations with "tetrits" or even "octits",
which are capable of capturing both last-operation details and sticky
information about various attributes.  This goes beyond the "trits"
of Motion 8.

Michel.


---Sent: 2010-04-15 19:29:14 UTC