Re: [Fwd: Re: junctions and conditionals]

2009-04-02 Thread Martin D Kealey
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Richard Hainsworth wrote: A closer examination of Martin's message indicates that he tends to think that hitting a junction ought to thread the entire program throughout the rest of the lifespan of said junction Yes -- and well put, thank-you. The trick is that since

[Fwd: Re: junctions and conditionals]

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Hainsworth
This email was mistakenly not sent to the p6l list. Jon writes: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote: Jon Lang wrote: In Junction Algebra, Martin Kealey wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mark J. Reed wrote: ( $a = any(-1,+1) = $b ) == ( $a =

Re: [Fwd: Re: junctions and conditionals]

2009-04-01 Thread Henry Baragar
On Wednesday, April 01 2009 07:38 am, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Right now, yes.  I'm arguing that the way that they're designed to work doesn't DWIM.  Try a slightly different example:     0 = $x = 1 # 0 is less than $x is less than 1.     $x ~~ 0..1 # $x is in the range of 0 to 1. I submit

Re: [Fwd: Re: junctions and conditionals]

2009-04-01 Thread TSa
HaloO, Richard Hainsworth wrote: ( $a = any(-1,+1) any(-1,+1) = $b )(*A) [..] $tmp = any(-1,+1); $a = $tmp $tmp = $b (*B*) Quite how the lines I have labelled (A) and (*B*) are different, I do not understand. Unless wrapping a junction in a