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Subject: Re: chain of responsibility

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:37:22 04/29/00

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On April 29, 2000 at 12:22:35, David Eppstein wrote:

>On April 29, 2000 at 09:47:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>There is one small problem here, but it is very serious.  You can't really
>>afford to turn a module on or off.  Doing so causes discontinuities in the
>>evaluation and can cause really bizarre moves to be played.
>
>If the added discontinuity happens at a point where the eval is discontinuous
>anyway (as in Bruce's program, it only happens when the material changes) maybe
>the edge effects are not so severe?


They are severe at times.  That is the problem.  It is better to smoothly
transition things in and out, rather than using a crowbar to pry them out
when they suddenly don't apply any more...



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