Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python

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	Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python (github.com)
	79 points by puremachinery 3945 days ago

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

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

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

This in the picture is Conway giving the talk.

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

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

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