# more randoms from bb (twisty)

kmp@harlequin.com (kmp@harlequin.com)
Mon, 28 Aug 1995 08:46:00 PDT

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        Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 22:50 EDT
        From: sir@po.cwru.edu (Seth I. Rich)

        + Is there a -technical- reason for the prohibition on recursive
          movement?  I've been trying to think of one, but I haven't been
          able to.  Of course recursive movement isn't VR, but should it be
          prohibited by the server?

    If what you mean is, should you be able to create a circularity in which
    something you contain contains you, this would break things like
    $object_utils:contains, which want to recurse outward until they find
    something that is not contained by something.  I think that's a technical
    reason not to permit this; whether the server is the right place for such
    enforcement, I can't say.  But I still think it's a good decision to have
    made somewhere.  I've never felt particularly hampered by the restriction
    myself...
     -kmp