Re: progress report

2008-04-20 Thread John M. Dlugosz
whiteringmoon-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: I stumbled onto this group as I was looking for language statisics and I tried understanding what I am looking at. What is Perl? I don't mean to sound stupid in asking this. But could you explain what it is that I am looking at here? WR See

Class names are virtual

2008-04-20 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry, you've wanted to have class names used within a class be virtual. With various degrees of conviction across the synopses, you've wanted classes defined within a class to be overridable, or all classes referenced by a class to be overridable, speculating on whether this is do-able. I'v

Re: progress report

2008-04-20 Thread whiteringmoon
On Apr 20, 3:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John M. Dlugosz) wrote: > I've identified a few more issues while refactoring the text across all > the synopses, but I'm just noting everything in my document.  Not enough > discussion going on to post them all. > > My main creative effort is in studying type

progress report

2008-04-20 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I've identified a few more issues while refactoring the text across all the synopses, but I'm just noting everything in my document. Not enough discussion going on to post them all. My main creative effort is in studying type systems, and musing over what it would be like to have Perl 6's typ