Mutability vs Laziness

2006-09-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
Carried over form IRC to placeholder the conversation as I saw it: We define the following in S06 as immutable types: ListLazy Perl list (composed of Seq and Range parts) Seq Completely evaluated (hence immutable) sequence Range Incrementally generated (hence

Re: Mutability vs Laziness

2006-09-25 Thread Dave Whipp
Aaron Sherman wrote: It seems to me that there are three core attributes, each of which has two states: Mutability: true, false Laziness: true, false Ordered: true, false I think there's a 4th: exclusivity: whether or not duplicate elements are permitted/exposed (i.e. the

Re: Mutability vs Laziness

2006-09-25 Thread Sam Vilain
Aaron Sherman wrote: Carried over form IRC to placeholder the conversation as I saw it: We define the following in S06 as immutable types: ListLazy Perl list (composed of Seq and Range parts) Seq Completely evaluated (hence immutable) sequence Range