Exegesis 6 status update

2003-06-02 Thread Damian Conway
Just in case you were wondering. Preparations for my imminent speaking tour: http://damian.conway.org/tshirt.html delayed it considerably, but I have had a draft of E6 complete for a few weeks now. Like the A6 it explains, it's big. So it's taken a few weeks for the design team to check

Multimethod dispatch?

2003-06-02 Thread Adam Turoff
Apologies if I've missed some earlier discussions on multimethods. The apocolypses, exegesises and synopses don't seem to say much other than (a) they will exist and (b) wait for apocolypse 12 for more information. Looking over RFC 256[*] and Class::Multimethods[**] it sounds like the intent is

Re: Multimethod dispatch?

2003-06-02 Thread Luke Palmer
Apologies if I've missed some earlier discussions on multimethods. The apocolypses, exegesises and synopses don't seem to say much other than (a) they will exist and (b) wait for apocolypse 12 for more information. Looking over RFC 256[*] and Class::Multimethods[**] it sounds like the

Re: Multimethod dispatch?

2003-06-02 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) writes: It will still have a lot of power in text processing, and still be a powerful quicky language, but that's no longer its primary focus -- not to say that highly structured programming is. So, uh, what is? And you can still do it the Perl 5 way in Perl