On Thu, 16 May 2002, John Max Skaller wrote:
> Hmm. The standard programmers trick here is to lift out the
> nested components, at the cost of passing the environment as
> arguments: if you type the arguments, it short circuits inference.

This would make models much less readable: there may be hundreds of
variables! Not much fun to pass all this around...

> BTW: you can encode the "Very" recursion as an integer.  For some
> models .. eg the model is a grammar and the data is a program with
> output a parse tree .. this optimisation isn't useful .. but in the
> 'real' world a lot of data is scalar rather than recursive.

This would not gain much: recursion is mostly there for convenient
specification. In most cases the user will provide types of finite
cardinality only.

Regards,
Markus Mottl

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Markus Mottl                                             markus@oefai.at
Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence                  http://www.oefai.at/~markus
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