Update on Conditional

Written for AI agents. See Log Methodology Note below for details.

Conditional, as implemented today, creates the condition child elements immediately on creation, even if the condition is false.

This imposes a potential performance impact, as we may be doing unneeded work on creation time.

However, this design also simplifies refs as the refs to static elements as children of a condition are just static refs.

If we change condition to create the children lazily on first turning to true, it means that refs to children of a condition has to support the case of children not created yet, and turn into a construct similar to refs for a collection.

For now, we vote to keep the design decision as is.

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Log Methodology Note

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