I personally would prefer that these proposals are specified in terms of *what's actually being proposed*, rather than in terms of some very elaborate analogy. Symbolic analogies to other tangentially related fields work for teaching existing concepts to intuitive people, but not for drafting and explaining a proposal to a technical audience who already likely at least grasps some of the concepts (and when they don't, they could easily Google it for most things).
And this is also why I've started ignoring these emails. My knee-jerk reaction is to just filter them to the trash, because they're explained too abstractly and intuitively to really describe what's going on, what's really being proposed. I can get them *somewhat*, after spending 15 minutes disecting what is being said, and that's just not an effective use of time. ----- Isiah Meadows [email protected] www.isiahmeadows.com On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Michael Luder-Rosefield <[email protected]> wrote: > At this point I fully expect Abdul to describe the Norse, Greek and Hindu > pantheons in terms of turbulence physics and give a few pseudocode JS > snippets indicating that they can also be used to handle REST requests. And > all in 3 short sentences. > > On Sun, 20 May 2018 at 02:49 kdex <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> To me, what you're actually seeking to discuss looks less related to >> physics >> and more like an extension to ECMAScript's `import` syntax. >> >> Would you please describe it a little more? A good conversation starter, >> preferably without any domain-specific context (i.e. physics), would >> entail: >> >> - the set of generalized (= non-domain-specific) problems it solves >> - the desugaring you have in mind >> - how a solution to your problem might look without introducing new syntax >> (ideally also the reasoning why you consider new syntax to be justified) >> >> On Sunday, May 20, 2018 3:12:34 AM CEST Abdul Shabazz wrote: >> > Of the five (5) known forms of matter: >> > >> > >> > >> > 1. Solid (well-structured arrangement of tightly bound atoms, found >> > in >> > ice) >> > 2. Liquid (unstructured arrangement of tightly-bound atoms) >> > 3. Gas (loose arrangement of atoms) >> > 4. Plasma (Properties of liquid, electricity, and magnetism found @ >> > the >> > core of our sun) >> > 5. Bose-Einstein condensates (Properties of gas and phase-invariant >> > liquid, ie. a superfluid) >> > >> > >> > ...Another sixth (6th) form of matter was uncovered six weeks ago at UT >> > Dallas: the "Superfluid Quasicrystal" -- which has the properties of >> > both >> > quasicrystals and superfluids, wherein Quasi crystals have atoms that >> > are >> > arranged in a highly ordered, periodic pattern that is unchanged when >> > you >> > rotate or repeat it, eg. in table salts) >> > >> > >> > This sixth (6th) form of matter exhibits properties of a Soliton: A >> > Soliton >> > or Einno Soliton Tsunami is a gathering phase-invariant wave that >> > maintains >> > its shape and velocity as it travels through any phase of matter. >> > >> > >> > An example implementation perhaps in javascript would be: >> > >> > >> > // file1.jsol >> > >> > >> > ${0} = (lhs,rhs) => { return (lhs ${1} rhs) } >> > >> > >> > // file2.js >> > >> > >> > import file1.["add",Symbol.operator.addition] as bar >> > >> > let foo = bar.add(4,2) // returns 6 >> > >> > >> > // file3.js >> > >> > >> > import file1.["mul",Symbol.operator.multiplication] as bar >> > >> > let foo = bar.mul(4,2) // returns >> > 8_______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
