I like the idea of flattening; I started becoming increasingly aware of the node consumption, as well as conversational fragmentation, when working this weekend with skosterow on File Upload On Windows 8 and Perl.

About halfway through what is now that monstrous shrubbery of a conversation, it occurred to me that this might be precisely why some Monks make frequent reference to using their scratchpad to work through a problem. I never saw the point until this past weekend. We could have ironed out all the details, and published only the solution on-thread.

I'll be looking into how to do that effectively for future use, but one thought I'd had is -- geez, I wish skosterow and I could have agreed to flatten a bunch of subnodes into some ancestor node and make it less painful to follow in eight months when someone else bumps into this.

Not sure it's feasible, desirable in the spirit of the Monastery, or worth the effort given the state of Perl in the world, but your thoughts definitely mirror my own.

In reply to Re: Threaded Monks Yodeling Modeling by marinersk
in thread Threaded Monks Yodeling Modeling by oiskuu

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