Re: applyContext and music streams

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg schreef:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 16:33, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > Erik Sandberg schreef:
> > > BTW: My current progress is that all information now goes through the
> > > stream. I propose that we add command-line flags
> > > --[no-]isolated-iteration, which makes iteration and translation use
> > > separate context trees. This would be slightly inefficient, but useful
> > > for testing/debugging, so it could be defaulted to #t in development
> > > versions and to #f in stable ones.
> > I don't understand the issue. What do we gain by either solution?

> If we use separate context trees, it will be easier to spot when the stream 
> interface is used improperly (for example, improper use of applyContext will 
> generate bad output).

OK, sounds good, initially for testing.  I'm not sure if we'd want to 
have it switched on after it's working, but we don't have to decide that 
yet.

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