Re: 'is' and action at a distance

2001-05-17 Thread Richard Proctor
On Fri 18 May, Damian Conway wrote: > > Ed wrote: > > >> Can 'undef' valued thingys have properties > > Yes. > >> and functions? > > No. > Why not? Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'is' and action at a distance

2001-05-17 Thread Damian Conway
Ed wrote: > Any ideas on how to handle this with the 'is' keyword? I was > reading the slashdot comments to Exegesis II, and this seemed to be > the one issue that had merit. A couple of the posters bemoaned the > fact that they were debugging PL/I about 25 years ago, and had code

'is' and action at a distance

2001-05-17 Thread Edward Peschko
Any ideas on how to handle this with the 'is' keyword? I was reading the slashdot comments to Exegesis II, and this seemed to be the one issue that had merit. A couple of the posters bemoaned the fact that they were debugging PL/I about 25 years ago, and had code that depended on some obscure pro