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[sayke]

At 08:59 AM 1/26/2002 -0500, someone with the password to kyle@arcavia.com 
wrote:
>Brian P Templeton wrote:
>
> > A multi-arrow is conceptually something like this:
> >
> >                               x   y   z
> >                               ^   ^   ^
> >                                \  |  /
> >                                 0 1 2
> >                                 \ | /
> >                                  ---
> >                                   |
> >
> > where 0, 1, and 2 are `branch numbers' and x, y, and z are objects in
> > some 'verse. When the multi-arrow is active, it is considered to point
> > to only the object at the end of the first branch - in this case, x -
> > and when inactive, well, it is a complete multi-arrow, not pointing to
> > anything, but just there. They will probably be used to implement
> > multiple values.
>
>With respect to the multi-arrow, as shown, is it important that the
>multi-arrow have three parameters (0, 1, 2).  Does the multi-arrow have
>an identifier beyond these ?three? parameters?

         and what, pray tell, is the difference between this and a standard 
tree/or list of lists?

sayke, v2.3.2