[lively-kernel] data binding setters / why no infinite recursion?

[Robert Krahn]

Hi, Davide --

Dan's original Fabrik does a topological sort before evaluating connections
when I'm not mistaken.

Lively's approach is much simpler: If a connection is active it is marked
as such (as kind of a dynamic variable) and subsequent activations won't
trigger dependencies.

When you look at AttributeConnection>>update (eval
  $world.browseCode("lively.bindings.Core", "AttributeConnection",
"lively.bindings.Core");
in Lively) then the first line does the activation check.

Best,
Robert


On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Davide Della Casa <davidedc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the Celsius - Fahrenheit example, each text box is connected to the
> other one.
>
> So changing the Celsius calculates the Fahrenheit and vice-versa.
>
> Question is: why does it not go in infinite updates between the two text
> boxes?
>
> I’m going through the code and “How connect works” and can’t figure out
> what’s preventing the infinite updates. The original Ingalls 1988 Fabrik
> paper mentions that this loop can/should/is avoided but it doesn’t give
> specifics (“with some care” and “bidirectionality…shorthand for multiple
> paths” page 5). There doesn’t seem to be a check in “connect” or “update”
> or the setter. The setter seems to do an update, so why doesn’t changing
> the C box cause the setter of F to invoke updates on C again?
>
> Also tried to look for “loop” in source code
> https://github.com/LivelyKernel/LivelyKernel/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=loop&type=Code
> <https://github.com/LivelyKernel/LivelyKernel/search?utf8=✓&q=loop&type=Code> but
> nothing jumps to the eye.
>
> What’s the trick I’m missing?
>
> (BTW the edit/select/move-cursor behaviour in the text boxes when they are
> connected is glitchy)
>
> Cheers,
> Davide Della Casa
>
>
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