Re: Spec reorganisation

2009-02-19 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Carl Mäsak wrote: Timothy (), Moritz (): Speaking of Tree, let me quote from IRC: 09:23 masak it's a bit unfortunate that the identifier 'Tree' is now squatted by an internal class in Perl 6, which is not general enough to reprenest an arbitrary

Re: Spec reorganisation

2009-02-19 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2009-02-19 às 22:57 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Interesting. I'm happy to assume that $root is allowed to be Undefined, I think. But let me ask a question; were you to represent an unrooted tree in a computer, how would you do it so that, if you had to look around the

Re: Spec reorganisation

2009-02-19 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:57 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Carl Mäsak wrote: A tree is a graph without cycles. That's insufficient. In fact, there are a number of ways that the general concept of an acyclic graph must be constrained before you get something you can call

Re: Spec reorganisation

2009-02-19 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qui, 2009-02-19 às 22:57 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Interesting. I'm happy to assume that $root is allowed to be Undefined, I think. But let me ask a question; were you to represent an unrooted tree in a computer, how would you do

Re: Spec reorganisation

2009-02-18 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: I'm not suggesting here that we specify the interfaces to all the modules listed in the Camel book, or anything like that. Instead, I'm suggesting that the S32 space be used for documenting the objects that we don't seem to be able to get away from.

Re: Spec reorganisation

2009-02-18 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Sorry, this was supposed to go to the mailing list. On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: After looking through the Phlanx project (which lists 100 or so top perl modules), and the list in the Camel book, I can only see one or two other things we might eventually

Re: Spec reorganisation

2009-02-18 Thread Carl Mäsak
Timothy (), Moritz (): Speaking of Tree, let me quote from IRC: 09:23 masak it's a bit unfortunate that the identifier 'Tree' is now squatted by an internal class in Perl 6, which is not general enough to reprenest an arbitrary tree data structure. I fully agree

Spec reorganisation

2009-02-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. I'd like to suggest a slight reorganisation within the specs. The first thing I've observed is that, in defining the IO stuff, and adding in the Tree and DateTime stuff, is that we're getting a lot of non-IO stuff in there. I'm aware that the numbering and ordering of the