Crosscut

So I was talking about if, how I had found shortcomings with it, and that I came up with an alternative. Then I went into detour on tail call elimination to set the stage for explaining all of that. That detour would have continued to other topics, and gone on for multiple days.

Would have, because while working on the drafts for that, I found an error in my thinking. Basically, the same technique I intend to use as part of my new solution, could have been used to fix if. Which is like 95% of the reason that I write these daily notes. They help me think.

Sure would have been nice to have had this insight before I spent about a week implementing pattern matching in function definitions to replace if, but hey, that's how it goes sometimes. And I like the new solution better anyway, for various reasons, so no harm done (except to my schedule). Anyway, still a lot to explain about all that, so I guess that's what I'll do over the next few days.