Breather

If anyone wonders what the above is, it's the deterministic solution to a hairy engraving computer science problem nobody thought was solvable. It's been like that since the 80s. Everybody has just kind of capitulated and lived with a 'it's 95% okay, the rest is impossible' type of mindset and then, as one must in that situation, used rules-of-thumb to reach that 95%. Which is a lot, and a very respectable achievement.

However, it turned out that Functional Programming and immutability - and non-consing push transducers - could solve the problem deterministically. For the first time ever.

​I think it holds. We shall see.

What it would mean for notation? No accidentals weirdness. No cleanup. Consistency. Adjustments for taste, not necessity.

The power of Clojure, of treating the piece as a transforming semantic stream, and of not working with OOP and mutable state.

Now I need to sit down and breathe for a while. Time to go into Hammock Mode. I need to get my head around this.