On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:56:06AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Is this thing on? No messages since last Wednesday. Which admittedly
makes a summarizer's life a good deal easier...
It looks like it is.
However, your life may be easier this week only, given that many
armed and dangerous minds
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:56:06AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Is this thing on? No messages since last Wednesday. Which admittedly
makes a summarizer's life a good deal easier...
It looks like it is.
However, your life may be easier this week only,
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Multimethod dispatch?
Adam Turoff asked if multimethod dispatch (MMD) was really *the* Right
Thing (it's definitely *a* Right Thing) and suggested that it would be
more Perlish to allow the programmer to override the
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Adam Turoff wrote:
- roll-your-own inheritance mechanisms (see NEXT.pm)
On a related note, you might also want to take a look at CLOS (the Common
Lisp Object System) where it talks about method selection. They've got a
pretty clear and general model that describes every
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Multimethod dispatch?
Assuming I'm not misunderstanding what Adam is after, this has come up
before (I think I asked about value based dispatch a few months back)
and I can't remember if the decision was that MMD didn't
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 07:13 AM, Adam Turoff wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Assuming I'm not misunderstanding what Adam is after, this has
come up
before (I think I asked about value based dispatch a few months
back)
and I can't remember if
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 09:19 AM, Mark A. Biggar wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
multi factorial (0) { 1 }
multi factorial ($n) { $n * factorial($n - 1) }
That's a bad example, as it's really not MMD. It's a partially
pre-memoized function
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
multi bar (Foo $self, int $i : ); # semicolon optional
pedantic
I think you meant colon optional. The semi-colon is, I think, a
syntax
error. You need the yada-yada-yada thing: {...}.
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