Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:36, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
The main difference is that p6-docs is intended to move very narrowly
from topic to topic, in a roughly predetermined order, focusing on each
But not to move faster than the design of the language.
Yeah, the
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 14:59, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
But my worries are that we could not keep P6L sufficiently focused,
resulting in an even *bigger* tangle of threads; that we can't really
*have* the discussions without posting the proposed documentation too;
and that P6L would not respond to
Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Be kind to Piers.
Ah... Yes do. I need all the kindness I can get.
--
Piers
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.
-- Jane Austen?
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 14:25, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
(2) The behavior of an explicit bool type, _if_ one exists, that stores
truth, not value. Such that Cmy bool $y = (0 but true) stores
true, not 0, and does so in the most efficient way.
If you don't already know whether it exists, or how
From: Bryan C. Warnock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
If you don't already know whether it exists, or how it will
roughly work (lexically), you shouldn't be discussing it on
p6d. Kicked back to p6l.
[...]
and again... what's the scope of p6d
p6d exists to document the language. A task which
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 14:25, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
(2) The behavior of an explicit bool type, _if_ one exists,
that stores truth, not value. Such that Cmy bool $y
= (0 but true) stores true, not 0, and does so in the
most efficient way.
There is no explicit bool type.
Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:52:52AM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 14:25, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: (2) The behavior of an explicit bool type, _if_ one exists,
: that stores truth, not value. Such that Cmy bool $y
: = (0 but true) stores true, not 0, and does so in the
:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:46:57PM -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
: Should an explicit bool type be part of the language? If so, how should
: it work? Cmy bool $y = (0 but true) storing only a truth property but
: no value makes little sense in the context of the larger language. So
: does
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 14:25, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
(2) The behavior of an explicit bool type, _if_ one exists, that
stores truth, not value. Such that Cmy bool $y = (0 but true)
stores true, not 0, and does so in the most
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 09:47 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
: (3) Context. How to determine it, how to force it. Hypothesis:
There
: is a one-to-one relationship between Type and Context, such that
there
: is a context that matches every type, and a type that matches every
: context
Larry Wall writes:
Note that the true property is not the same as the true function.
This tells me that properties may need their own namespace distinct
from either subs or classes. (We've talked about defining properties
as subs or classes, but either way is problematic. If we have a
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:17, Garrett Goebel wrote:
p6d exists to document the language. A task which consists of going over the
AE's and Larry's posts to p6l, etc. and flushing them out into
deliverables:
o Perl6/Parrot regression tests
o Language Specification derived from tests
o
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:36, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
The main difference is that p6-docs is intended to move very narrowly
from topic to topic, in a roughly predetermined order, focusing on each
But not to move faster than the design of the language.
one until the more dedicated members
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