Re: An ignorant opinion from an amateur [was: Re: Civility, please]

2003-01-25 Thread Damian Conway
Sam Vilain wrote: To me what's missing stands out like a sore thumb - that making sure a package/class definition can express all the same primitive elements used by the current emerged standard of modelling data sets - UML. The design group is currently considering the entire issue of class

An ignorant opinion from an amateur [was: Re: Civility, please]

2003-01-19 Thread Sam Vilain
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:18, Joseph F. Ryan wrote: Ignorant of what? Surely we shouldn't assume that we're all ignorant of Perl? Ignorant of the untold number of ways things could be done better. Assuming the universe has an infinite number of possibilities, we have 0% of the expressive space of