as clearly stated in my mail, that's a quote from a message by miller from 2002. see the full text here: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2002-10/008321.html i would love to learn, too
Well, I believe that there is no such design that can really obviate the need for a general escape mechanism.
well, maybe you have to think about that for another ten years ... perhaps you find a design ... if not ... think about it for another 10 years ...
iirc it took more than 500 years after the fibonacci numbers has been defined to find a direct (non-recursive way) to compute elements ... how long took it to prove fermat's last theorem?
maybe there is a superior design, that will be thought of in 30 or 300 years ... still, i'd prefer a non-optimal solution until then ...
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