Re: What to do....

2003-11-15 Thread Rod Adams
At 10:40 PM 11/14/2003 -0800, chromatic wrote: I'd really like to see people start turning the existing design documents into story cards and programmer tests for Perl 6. That'll make it much easier to implement the thing. So basically go back through the existing Apoc/Exeg's and break it down

What to do....

2003-11-14 Thread Rod Adams
So I've been lingering around p6-language for a few months now, and have noticed the following two trends: 1) All of the work forward on p6 design seems to come from either Larry or Damian. (If there are others working in the shadows back there, please make yourselves heard.) Most, if not all,

Re: What to do....

2003-11-14 Thread chromatic
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 22:23, Rod Adams wrote: (If there are others working in the shadows back there, please make yourselves heard.) Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Hugo van der Sanden, and I usually help out. Can apocalypses be something more along the line of scratches on the wall, that

what lexicals do?

2001-09-06 Thread Dave Mitchell
Here's a list of what any Perl 6 implementation of lexicals must be able to cope with (barring additions from future apocalyses). Can anyone think of anything else? From Perl 5: * multiple instances of the same variable name within different scopes of the same sub * The notion of