[DGD] Is self nesting ALWAYS a bug?

[Felix A. Croes]

Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Me and someone else who I am choosing to keep anonymous at this time just
> got into a huge debate of whether cyclic containment is ever a legitimate
> circumstance.

I suppose the best way to determine that is decide how you deal with
the problems, such as infinite recursion, and how you keep things
straightforward for the ordinary mudlib programmer.


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> I'm thinking though that cache-hot roots would minimize a good part of the
> overhead.

What are cache-hot roots?

Regards,
Felix Croes