Re: Rules and hypotheticals: continuations versus callbacks

2003-03-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:00 AM + 3/20/03, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthijs Van Duin) writes: OK, I suppose that works although that still means you're moving the complexity from the perl implementation to its usage: in this case, the perl 6 parser which is written in perl 6 No, I don't believe

Funding the design team

2003-03-20 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:32:39PM -0500, James Mastros wrote: On 03/14/2003 3:22 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: That means that TPF's perl development grant fund is fine to donate to, and if there's only enough cash for one grantee, and Larry's the best candidate, that's keen. Setting up a Fund

Re: Funding the design team

2003-03-20 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Storrs wrote: Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can send checks. The checks won't be tax deductible, but are we really doing this for the tax deduction? ... or a PayPal account. I've got $1.36 in my account ready to send to the

Re: Rules and hypotheticals: continuations versus callbacks

2003-03-20 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Matthijs van Duin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:46:50PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: They should be though, if a variable was hypothesized when the continuation was taken, then it should be hypothesized when that continuation is invoked. Should they? Does

Re: Rules and hypotheticals: continuations versus callbacks

2003-03-20 Thread Matthijs van Duin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:49:28AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: --- Matthijs van Duin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you seem to have a much complexer model of hypotheses than what's in my head. The complex model is right -- in other words, if hypotheses are to be a first-class part of the language

Re: prototype (was continuations and regexes)

2003-03-20 Thread Matthijs van Duin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:38:31AM -0800, Sean O'Rourke wrote: Here's what I take to be a (scheme) prototype of Matthijs' success continuations approach. It actually works mostly by passing closures and a state object, ... Matthijs -- is this what you're describing? It sounds like approach #2

Re: prototype (was continuations and regexes)

2003-03-20 Thread Matthijs van Duin
Oops, I just noticed Sean had mailed Dan and me privately, not on the list.. sorry for sending the reply here :-) -- Matthijs van Duin -- May the Forth be with you!

Re: Funding the design team

2003-03-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
David == David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Such a fund would be the ideal but, until it is set up, there is a David very easy way to fund the design team: David Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can David send checks. The checks won't be tax