Yes, currying -- that's what it's called. Thank you, judge.
You know, I've only been on advogato for a week or so, but it seems to me that with a few tweaks, these diary entries could really act like a... discussion-graph, I guess. That is, it would be cool if I could refer to something in a diary entry that someone else had written -- either a specific point or the entry or diary itself. That way I could ask a lot of development / design questions and everyone else could spend their time answering them.
My friends at Amherst College use this system called Planworld, a sort of enhancement of finger in which you can not only "link" to other users' .plans in your own .plan, but you can see who's currently linking to yours.
SDOM
In an attempt to reconcile the amount of data that's available from a DOM tree as part of the W3C recommendation with my own desire to minimize the amount of annotation to apply to existing SXML trees, I came up with the following scheme (pardon the pun):
I maintain an abstract hierarchical model of DOM structure, complete with representations of all the different properties for that node interface such that...
- Each representation specifies whether or not the property can be set explicitly.
- Each representation specifies how to get the value of the property -- either by applying a function that derives the value from the content of the node or, by default, by retrieving an annotation attached to the node.
- Each representation specifies how to set the value of the property (if it's not read-only) -- either by applying a function that modifies the node in some way or, by default, by adding / updating an annotation attached to the node.