Posted by Phil M on July 28, 2003 at 04:50:13:
In Reply to: Re: Kudos and Selection Suggestion posted by Phil on July 28, 2003 at 03:00:48:
: David was saying down below that snip points are represented by html tags and are treated programmatically exactly as words, i.e. they can be dropped, added or moved at random.
I've come across the snip-point discussion several times this morning and I think there's confusion (at least as far as I'm concerned) but I've not read everything so I might be wrong.
Snip-point type 1: The 'Break' tag in HTML, is a word as far as the poem is concerned and shows as a line-feed when displayed. Part of the 'genome'/'poeome'.
Snip-point type 2: The point(s) that define how the two parents are fragmentated before recombining as children. Decided randomly per 'breeding cycle', like the other mutations.
Neither of these are connected, Yes/No?
What some are suggesting, it seems to me, is a type 3 snip-point. Ideas vary between suggesters, but in general they are genome-based item which is a 'prefered' snip-point and guiding the type 2 snipping (and may find its way to being selectively placed near type 1 points, if good lines evolve that don't work too well when split and combined).
BTW, for what it's worth, I would suggest that the type-3 marked could be a 'word' that is HTML's ampersand-quoted 'space' character. Mostly invisible to the reader they wouldn't need special exceptions in the breeding engine or auxilary data for each poem-string.