Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python

[erdewit]

Why not use a bitemporal data model instead, it's cleaner and easier to reason about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database

[leni536]

I think it would be the "naive" implementation. For specific data structures more efficient specific algorithms can be written.

[gergoerdi]

You can also do time-travelling control structures: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tardis-0.3.0.0/docs/Cont...

[bmn_]

Perl did time-travelling variables first, namely in 2007: Positronic::Variables

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gunnarwolf/1343377956/

This in the picture is Conway giving the talk.

[pandler]

Can anyone give an example of a use case for this?

[Semiapies]

I'd be rather curious; this is an interesting concept.

[rem7]

why don't you guys stop stalking github.com/csvoss already? Third post of the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114969

[mejari]

Not sure I understand the problem. If each submission is interesting in and of themselves, does it matter if the source is the same?