Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
As in door has redness - ugh
vs door is red.
Property should be an adjective, not a noun.
make more sense than
$thing is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Property should be an adjective, not a noun.
While I'm inclined to want to disagree with you
100% on that, I really only disagree 50%. :-)
--
John Porter
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Me wrote:
yes?
And, despite perl5's use of no as the opposite
of use, and given that there may be no use in
perl6 (;), and thus perhaps no no, (on and off?),
then maybe no could be used as not yes?
no?
Your Honor, I would like to stipulate that that
: is = typing, inheritance, etc.
: has = composition, aggregation, etc.
:
: True, but those are basic OO concepts, which don't neatly apply to
: property-lists (a very old Lisp concept that Perl6 is adopting).
Well, you can think of it like that, but I'm actually trying for some
happy
So bool would perhaps be a synthetic property that has opposite
polarity
from bit? I can see that, sort of. It's something like electrons
being
negative, thank you Mr. Franklin.
s/bit/yes/
yes?
And, despite perl5's use of no as the opposite
of use, and given that there may be no use in
Me writes:
: So bool would perhaps be a synthetic property that has opposite
: polarity
: from bit? I can see that, sort of. It's something like electrons
: being
: negative, thank you Mr. Franklin.
:
: s/bit/yes/
:
: yes?
:
: And, despite perl5's use of no as the opposite
: of use, and
If you're trying to confuse me, I can assure you it's unnecessary.
;-)
Hey, I try.
--me
(Under cover Ruby/Python agent and
promotor of RFCs 380 thru 1,000,000)
Me wrote:
And, despite perl5's use of no as the opposite
of use, and given that there may be no use in
perl6 (;), and thus perhaps no no, (on and off?),
then maybe no could be used as not yes?
Well clearly on is the opposite of no. Yes?
--
John Porter
Well clearly on is the opposite of no. Yes?
maybe, as in:
my cat maybe Dog;
for some form of relaxed typing constraint.
crazy cackle
Simon Cozens wrote:
John Porter wrote:
$thing is;
Existence is not the same as essence.
strike() while $the_iron is;
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John Porter
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
make more sense than
$thing is property
$foo has true doesn't flow as well as $foo is true.
Rocco Caputo wrote:
$thing's veracity is true.
What about just
$thing is;
--
John Porter
All men are subjects.
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:10:47PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
Rocco Caputo wrote:
$thing's veracity is true.
What about just
$thing is;
Existence is not the same as essence.
--
Triage your efforts, y'know?
- Thorfinn
Those new properties thingies are looking powerful. Does this mean we
can now do:
sub decorate ($obj) {
$obj is ad_hoc_method(sub {...});
}
and expect C$obj.ad_hoc_method(...) to call the appropriate
subroutine?
--
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
this message. Of course, I hadn't
seen Apo 2 itself, and I was really reliefed when I did.
For the record: I had assumed that double quotish interpretation for the
here docs was going to disappear. Not so. It's just that in
$heredoc = END;
foofoo foo foo
END
the double quotes
Piers Cawley wrote:
sub decorate ($obj) {
$obj is ad_hoc_method(sub {...});
}
and expect C$obj.ad_hoc_method(...)
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
make more sense than
$thing is property
???
Is usually implies a generalization link,
not a
Bart Lateur wrote:
I hardly ever restrict
myself to word characters in the end delimiter, anyway.
Interesting -- I *always* use EOF, because that's the
only one vim knows a priori how to highlight correctly. :-/
--
John Porter
It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
make more sense than
$thing is property
$foo has true doesn't flow as well as $foo is true. Dunno quite
what the other expected uses are.
--
Michael G. Schwern
At 03:00 PM 05-04-2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
make more sense than
$thing is property
$foo has true doesn't flow as well as $foo is true. Dunno quite
what
Michael G Schwern wrote:
$foo has true doesn't flow as well as $foo is true.
But the general form, something like
$thing is a_property
or
$thing is a_behavior
flows considerably worse, IMHO.
--
John Porter
It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
Michael G Schwern writes:
$foo has true doesn't flow as well as $foo is true. Dunno quite
what the other expected uses are.
$foo has truth; # :-)
This leads naturally to:
$foo has the_buddha_nature;
$foo has ten_days_to_live;
$foo has meddled_in_my_affairs_one_too_many_times! # !
From: Buddha Buck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
At 03:00 PM 05-04-2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
make more sense than
$thing is property
$foo has true
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:47:18AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Michael G Schwern writes:
$foo has true doesn't flow as well as $foo is true. Dunno quite
what the other expected uses are.
$foo has truth; # :-)
This leads naturally to:
$foo has the_buddha_nature;
$foo has
@pi are square;
@dogs have fleas;
@talks have stalled;
--
John Porter
On Fri, 4 May 2001 10:49:48 -0500 , Garrett Goebel wrote:
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
make more sense than
$thing is property
$foo has true doesn't flow as well as $foo is true. Dunno quite
what the other expected uses are.
Maybe it is just
At 10:49 AM 05-04-2001 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
From: Buddha Buck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
At 03:00 PM 05-04-2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
And btw . . . Wouldn't
$thing has property
make more
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:51:43AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
@pi are square;
Pi are round. Cake are square.
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Tad McClellan SGML consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
is = typing, inheritance, etc.
has = composition, aggregation, etc.
True, but those are basic OO concepts, which don't neatly apply to
property-lists (a very old Lisp concept that Perl6 is adopting).
is does seem to imply an OO is-a relationship. So lets run
with it!
If $foo is an
I am going to miss doublequoting being the default quoting for
here strings. I find that to be a very nice optimization and
would like to know more about the reasoning behind taking it
away. I worry that official standard p6 will be more difficult
to use than official standard p5.
--
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:14:47PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
I am going to miss doublequoting being the default quoting for
here strings. I find that to be a very nice optimization and
would like to know more about the reasoning behind taking it
away. I worry that official standard p6
David L. Nicol writes:
: I am going to miss doublequoting being the default quoting for
: here strings. I find that to be a very nice optimization and
: would like to know more about the reasoning behind taking it
: away. I worry that official standard p6 will be more difficult
: to use than
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