How do we count? - September 26, 2012

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Andreas Guelzow
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2012-09-21T21:44:00+00:00
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How do we count? - September 26, 2012
Perhaps I haven't absorbed all this sufficiently yet, but I've had a reservation about MCT I've never understood enough to fully prove.  Doesn't all this relative positional referencing cause difficulty for an implementation?  As Svante noted early in the thread:
>As result to this the numbers of the arguments might be increased (or decreased) when the operation is being moved up/down, as components earlier counted have or have not existed before.  So each time an arbitrary change is rejected or the document content is altered (change-tracked or not), the numerical references of some/all the change tracking markup may be invalidated and must be recalculated by the application, right?  That seems like a significant and unavoidable burden.  I was a hardware guy in school, not a software/algorithms guy, but that has to be unpleasant big-O behavior!  Or am I (hopefully!) wrong in my understanding?  John