zz: Proposed Slice Methods, from Easy to Hard / clone fusing

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here goes (trying to repair the shock of my complex
 May proposal)--

1.  MINIMAL slice, HARD-CONNECTED by some
 special slice-end cell type, looking something like--

<<s.3,cellno

and you explicitly bring in slice 3 when needed.

This connection must be at the end of a rank, at least
 within the specific slices.

NOTHING MAY BE REARRANGED ACROSS THIS
 SLICE-END CELL.

2.  We add rearrangement across these cells.  That means:
a) We copy the cell into the destination slice;
b) we test whether the cell is already in the destination slice,
 in which case it becomes a clone of the other
c) UNLESS the two cells have no connection collisions,
 IN WHICH CASE THEY ARE FUSED INTO ONE;
d) if the cell has no further connections in the source slice,
 it is deleted;
e) if the cell now exists in both source and destination slice,
 they are identified as clones of each other;
f)  (we figure out if a new type of clone is needed across
 cell boundaries).

3.  Rich SLIDE-IN slices, like those defined in May,
 where constraint-based relations allow cells to slide in
 between other cells.

Best, T

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