I meant to snag this the other day, but forgot to until I came it across again. Chris Dent writes (with regard to Purple Numbers, but on a mailing list):

Transcluding is a good tool in the process of presenting thesis and antithesis, but at some point we want to crystallize out the synthesis.

Nicely put, and a difficult goal; somewhere in the serendipitous nature of discovery we hit the aha moment. Making that clear can be hard.

(and I'll point out to some readers that what I've done there is in fact a use of Purple Numbers.)

Posted by esinclai at July 17, 2003 09:40 PM |