Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread John Macdonald
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:48:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: > > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are > > AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> reminds me of the great line: in EU they consider a 100 miles a long >> distance, in the US we consider 100 years a long time. :) AH> That's very good. I'm going to recycle it. Do you know the author? dunno. i have heard it from

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Austin Hastings: > When you consider some of the issues, it's sort of obvious that they're > trying *real* hard not to say, "Look the Americans solved this problem > already." Three words: "Second System Effect". -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Austin Hastings
From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it > >> would be anot

Reminder: The EU constitution's off-topic

2004-01-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
And should stay off-list, thanks. -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it >> would be another 200 years. this is not a knock on larry but a comment

RE: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are > AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court > AH> decisi

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: >>Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >> >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > people's salaries will depend on

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court AH> decisions at the same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get AH> eurselves a Larry. I

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Melvin Smith
At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, b

RE: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Austin Hastings
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I confess > I wouldn't be surprised if, > by the end of the year, > we haven't seen > the full implementation of > at least one of > the big > non-Perl > scripting languages > on top of Parrot. Obviously you've been reading the proposed EU con

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:55, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: > >> The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full >> > implementation of at least

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Lars Balker Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much >> done once Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are >> finished. Of course, the devil is in the details, but

Re: Roles and Mix-ins?

2004-01-05 Thread Jonathan Lang
David Storrs wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:12:31AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:57:17AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: > > : For one, one role's methods don't silently override another's. > > : Instead, you get, er, role conflict and you have to disambiguate > > : your

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Lars Balker Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-05 20:42]: > I'm confused, are you optimistic or pessimistic in that last > sentence? Sounds carefully optimistic to me. At least it certainly doesn't sound pessimistic per se, no? -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you d

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Melvin Smith
At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full > implementation of at least one of the big non-

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread Lars Balker Rasmussen
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much done once > Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are finished. Of course, > the devil is in the details, but I don't doubt that the hoped for > existence of a w

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread John Siracusa
On 1/5/04 1:55 PM, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I confess I wouldn't be surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen >> the full implementation of at least one of the big non-Perl scripting >> languages on top of Parrot. > > I'm confu

This week's summary

2004-01-05 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040104 What a surprise, a scant week after the last Perl 6 Summary of 2003, it's the first Perl 6 Summary of 2004. Will wonders never cease? Without further ado, we'll start with perl6-internals as usual. Garbage Collection Tasks Dan noted

Re: Roles and Mix-ins?

2004-01-05 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:12:31AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:57:17AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: > : For one, one role's methods don't silently override another's. Instead, > : you get, er, role conflict and you have to disambiguate yourself. How do you disambiguate?