Many thanks. If there is any way I can be of any help, please don't hesitate to ask. I would be delighted.
- David On Nov 12, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Jeff Dyer wrote: > > On 11/12/07 2:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Thank you for adding me to this list. >> >> I have just finished reading the language proposal spec, and was >> struck by the richness of the additions to the language. I haven't >> been following this effort at all; and so thank people in advance for >> their patience with my ignorance. Now that I've seen the spec, there >> are two more documents that would really help my understanding: > > I'm guessing you've read the overview whitepaper. No official spec > exists > yet. > >> >> I was wondering if there exists a document that sets out the language >> design goals and the connection between each feature and the goals it >> supports? In my mind's eye, I picture a table of goals along one >> axis, >> and features on the other, with entries filled in where a given >> feature helps or hinders a given goal. Does this document exist? If >> not, would it be helpful if it did? > > Such a document doesn't exist. I have been thinking that something > like this > should be written to help people understand how the individual > features fit > together to make the whole language work. > > I'll take a crack at this. > >> >> Also, sometimes a feature can, in combination with some other >> language >> feature, create undesirable interactions. Again, in my mind's eye, I >> picture a table with all of the features in each axis, and the >> entries >> describe how each pair of features either reinforce, interfere with, >> or have no effect on each other. Does such a document exist? And >> would >> it be helpful if it did? > > Good idea too. > > The reference implementation is a kind of empirical version of this. > But I > agree, an abstract presentation would give a nice overview of what > we, as > the designers, believe to be true about the feature interactions. > > Jd > >> Thank you, >> >> - David >> >> >> PS: Is there a list of the original committee members anywhere? I >> haven't run across that. >> _______________________________________________ >> Es4-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss > _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
