[Grok-dev] Re: sprint mini-report 2

[Kevin Smith]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Kevin Smith wrote:
> [snip]
>> My judgment is that the spaghetti-traversal mechanism hasn't had 
>> enough real use in the wild to expose
>> it's shortcomings.
>>
>> In any case, I think this is an important area of Grok that reequires 
>> further exploration.
>
> Yes, which is what we're trying to do with grok.traversable, of 
> course, too. That's not to exclude other explorations, of course. 
> grok.traversable does codify patterns I've at least seen in some 
> real-world applications.
It showed up for me when I had to show views of my objects in both it's 
natural hierarchy *and* in a completely different hierarchy to meet 
business objectives.
>
> What exactly made spaghetti traversal "spaghetti" and what exactly 
> wasn't scalable? I think you are talking about complexity scalability, 
> right?
Yes, complexity scalabilty.
>
> Perhaps we can see 'grok.traversable()' as a degenerate case of the 
> trails approach. Or the other way around, perhaps there are ways to 
> expand grok.traversable to do trails-like things.
Yes, I think there is room to expand grok.traversable to do trails-like 
things.

>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>
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