HaloO,
David Green wrote:
On 2008-Oct-22, at 10:03 am, TSa wrote:
Note that types have a fundamentally different task in a signature
than name and position have. The latter are for binding arguments to
parameters. The types however are for selection of dispatch target.
Names do that too; I t
On 2008-Oct-22, at 10:03 am, TSa wrote:
David Green wrote:
One thing I would like signatures to be able to do, though, is
assign parameters by type. Much like a rule can look for
identifiable objects like a or , it would be very
useful to look for parameters by their type or class rather
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, David Green wrote:
On 2008-Oct-2, at 6:15 pm, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
The guys on IRC convinced me that the way to go might be something like
a grammar, but that does trees and tree transformations instead of a
text input st
HaloO,
David Green wrote:
One thing I would like signatures to be able to do, though, is assign
parameters by type. Much like a rule can look for identifiable objects
like a or , it would be very useful to look for
parameters by their type or class rather than by name (or position).
For ex
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Brad Bowman wrote:
The "scrap your boilerplate" scheme for generics in Haskell addresses
traversals, queries, transformations, parallel zipping and the like.
I've only briefly felt like I understood it, so I was going to
revise before trying to adapt it to Perl 6. (Any lam
The "scrap your boilerplate" scheme for generics in Haskell addresses
traversals, queries, transformations, parallel zipping and the like.
I've only briefly felt like I understood it, so I was going to
revise before trying to adapt it to Perl 6.
(Any lambdacamels out there that do understand th
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, David Green wrote:
On 2008-Oct-2, at 6:15 pm, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
The guys on IRC convinced me that the way to go might be something like a
grammar, but that does trees and tree transformations instead of a text
input stream. See the IRC log for details :).
[...]
n
On 2008-Oct-2, at 6:15 pm, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
The guys on IRC convinced me that the way to go might be something
like a grammar, but that does trees and tree transformations
instead of a text input stream. See the IRC log for details :).
[...]
note to treematching folks: it is envisag
