Re: OO Requirements [was Re: classnames and HLL namespaces -- help!]

2006-10-25 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Allison Randal wrote: More specifically: If you have any questions related to a PDD in clip, please add them to a QUESTIONS section at the end of the PDD. For requirements, use REQUIREMENTS. Neither of these sections will live in the final version of the PDD, so it's a flag for me to process

Re: OO Requirements [was Re: classnames and HLL namespaces -- help!]

2006-10-25 Thread Allison Randal
Jonathan Worthington wrote: OK, so I've added a REQUIREMENTS section to the objects PDD now and filled it out with some (hopefully most) of what Perl 6 and .Net need as a start. Thanks Jonathan, it's a great start! Allison

Re: OO Requirements [was Re: classnames and HLL namespaces -- help!]

2006-10-24 Thread Allison Randal
chromatic wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 09:49, Jonathan Worthington wrote: Would it be a good idea to start collecting requirements together from different language implementors so that when the time comes to work on the OO PDD, there is already a good description of what it needs to do?

OO Requirements [was Re: classnames and HLL namespaces -- help!]

2006-10-23 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Allison Randal wrote: I think the object model needs a thorough going over in general Yup. It's on the list right after I/O, threads, and events. -- for the reasons above and because it's an unproven system. I'm not convinced that it will handle all of Perl 6's needs as is. No serious OO

Re: OO Requirements [was Re: classnames and HLL namespaces -- help!]

2006-10-23 Thread chromatic
On Monday 23 October 2006 09:49, Jonathan Worthington wrote: Would it be a good idea to start collecting requirements together from different language implementors so that when the time comes to work on the OO PDD, there is already a good description of what it needs to do? If so, I'm happy

Re: OO Requirements [was Re: classnames and HLL namespaces -- help!]

2006-10-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 05:49:08PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: Allison Randal wrote: I think the object model needs a thorough going over in general Yup. It's on the list right after I/O, threads, and events. ... Ruby is a serious OO language, but it's not finished yet. For that