On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:07:39AM -0400, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> The current plan is that the traversal algorithm will be redesigned.
> The redesign makes "tail eating" trivial.  I believe I posted a
> patch that shows this idea (i.e. the Namespace class).

If this is what I half-remember, a sizable part of me wants to call it
"tail swallowing".  I *think* that's because it's a more internal
solution, with TailEater being entirely external to Quixote itself.

Thus spake the randomly firing neurons of Saturday!

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