15 Aug
2017
15 Aug
'17
2:21 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Patrik Eklund <peklund@cs.umu.se> wrote:
So in that text, readable on the monitor, there are indeed partial orders, and if you, Mike, want to focus on the carriage return, fine.
The rendering of text or graphics on a screen made of scan lines is just one easy example of serialization, a nontrivial practical task on which millions of man hours have been spent. The lexicographic ordering is well-defined and well-motivated, and it's reasonable to ask for a nice characterization. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]