perl.perl6.users on nntp.perl.org (was: Logic Programming for Perl6)

2006-05-26 Thread mAsterdam
Ovid wrote: Larry pointed out that this topic is better suited for perl6-language instead of perl6-users, so I'm forwarding this along. Is there a reason perl6-users isn't fed through to nntp.perl.org ? Maybe it is but I don't know to which group?

Re: using the newer collection types - Interval

2006-05-06 Thread mAsterdam
Prompted by Darren Duncan's proposal on Relation type objects I looked at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S06.html and wondered how Interval type objects would fit in. I couldn't imagine how. Now that isn't a surprise (not for lack of imagination but for lack of perl6 knowledge). I

Re: using the newer collection types - Interval

2006-05-06 Thread mAsterdam
Darren Duncan wrote: mAsterdam wrote: Prompted by Darren Duncan's proposal on Relation type objects I looked at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S06.html and wondered how Interval type objects would fit in. I couldn't imagine how. Now that isn't a surprise (not for lack of imagination

Re: using the newer collection types - Interval

2006-05-06 Thread mAsterdam
is a bug, not a feature. Okay, thank you both for clarifying this. Conceptually in my mind, a Range is entirely appropriate to represent a mathematical interval, but I was mistaken about Range being more constrained than it actually is. So, there you go mAsterdam; Range is indeed the interval

Re: using the newer collection types - Interval

2006-05-06 Thread mAsterdam
Darren Duncan wrote: At 12:45 AM +0200 5/7/06, mAsterdam wrote: Okay, thank you both for clarifying this. Conceptually in my mind, a Range is entirely appropriate to represent a mathematical interval, but I was mistaken about Range being more constrained than it actually is. So, there you

Re: using the newer collection types - Interval

2006-05-06 Thread mAsterdam
Darren Duncan wrote: At 2:17 AM +0200 5/7/06, mAsterdam wrote: I hope (and think) you are right about that regarding implementing relations. Using them correctly is another story though. I don't think Date, Darwen Lorentzos lightly took the step of introducing 6NF in 2003. Aside, about RVA