marker movement?

[Ykulvaarlck]

i know this is marked as a mirror but the link to the current repository is completely dead.
i wanted to ask, what's the reasoning behind making the marker position static, instead of moving with the tiles?
it seems like your scheme is much more error-prone as you have to either somehow keep the marker off the grid or manually move it after shifting a row/column so it doesn't ride with the tiles

[exaexa]

hi!

i know this is marked as a mirror but the link to the current repository is completely dead.

oh whoops, fixed. I should put a BSD on that server. Still, there's no actual issue tracker there so you have to do issues here or by mail, not a big deal. :)

it seems like your scheme is much more error-prone as you have to either somehow keep the marker off the grid or manually move it after shifting a row/column so it doesn't ride with the tiles

We actually did this change after we found that this leaks long sequences of spaces (offset 0 0) which tend to stabilize on outputting space forever -- if the marker doesn't move and gets carried together with the shifts, there's no chance that the stuff below the marker changes.

Looking at it, there's the literal only other issue here that describes the problem: #1

Hope this helps!

[exaexa]

(PS. it might be the case that the space issue is completely not an issue for the expected manual mode of use. But it looks cryptographically scary to me.)