[mercury-users] Mercury Modes Problem

[Michael Day]

> Aaaarggh, that may be the killer for my application. The obvious
> way to handle a population of individuals in evolutionary systems
> is to have the individual created as a structure containing the
> definition of the individual, with the fitness uninstantiated, then
> to later instantiate the fitness as it is evaluated (in general, the
> fitness may depend on other individuals in the population, so it
> can't just be added at generation time). With this restriction, I'll
> need to keep (at least) two separate parallel data structures. Is the
> restriction likely to be removed anytime in the foreseeable future?

Could you keep it fully instantiated but as a maybe(fitness) instead?

Michael

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