syntax: multi vs. method

2003-11-09 Thread Jonathan Lang
It has been mentioned in Apocalypse 6 that there may not be a difference between a method and a multimethod that has one invocant. If this does indeed turn out to be the case, I'd like to see the method syntax being expanded to act as an alternative to the multi syntax: method- In the method

Re: syntax: multi vs. method

2003-11-17 Thread Jonathan Lang
My apologies for the break in the chain of responses; I lost your reply before I could reply to it, and had to retrieve it from the list archives. Luke Palmer wrote: Well, multi is no longer a declarator in its own right, but rather a modifier. Synopsis Exegesis 6 show this. I don't know

Re: syntax: multi vs. method

2003-11-18 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: Jonathan Lang writes: Luke Palmer wrote: Well, multi is no longer a declarator in its own right, but rather a modifier. Synopsis Exegesis 6 show this. I don't know about Exegesis 6, Then you should probably read it. It is the most recent of the documents

Parsing macros (was: Control flow variables)

2003-11-19 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: So far we've only allowed is parsed on the macro itself, not on individual arguments. Still, that's an interesting idea. Forgive me if this has already been addressed, but this could have some useful applications: So far, everything I've read about macro parsing concentrates

roles (Was: enums and bitenums)

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lang
I'm invoking the principle that the only stupid question is the one not asked: Larry Wall wrote: if indeed properties can be unified with roles (and roles with classes). Based on the source material pointed to as your inspiration for roles, I'm a little confused as to how roles and classes

Re: roles (Was: enums and bitenums)

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lang
Paul Hodges wrote: Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incidently, I think I've caught on to _one_ of the concepts in the upcoming object-orientation proposal: linguistically, there's a triad of basic verbs - namely be, do, and have. If I'm following things properly, one could think

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-14 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: I think the class is still the final arbiter of what its objects are--there is no other entity that holds all the reins. If a class chooses to include a role, and that role violates the normal rules of roles, the class is still responsible for that (or else you need some

Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)

2003-12-15 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : Let's see if I've got this straight: : : role methods supercede inherited methods; But can defer via SUPER:: : class methods supercede role methods; But can defer via ROLE:: or some such. Check, and check. Of course, SUPER:: works well

Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : Jonathan Lang wrote: Also, there will be access to the list of call candidates for SUPER:: (and presumably ROLE::) such that the class's method can get explicit control of which super/role method or methods get called. So we can

Re: but true

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Maybe there's an intermediate syntactic form like: $x but subclass MyClass does FooBar[bar] { } IMHO, Cbut should be defined as generating a singleton class that derives from the variable's class and composes a specified role - but not neccessarily a Ipre-existing role.

dispatching (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : Arguably, the role's might be required to declare their methods : multi if they want to participate in this, but that's one of those : things that feel like they ought to be declared by the user rather : than the definer. On the other hand, maybe

trait declarations (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : It also occurs to me that traits can be thought of : as adjectives (thus the is trait vs. is a class distinction) - : another way to attach an adjective to a noun in English is to prepend : it to the noun: : : my Dog $Spot is red; : my black

junctive classes (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : In a similar vein, what about making a disjunction of classes in an : Cis or Cisa clause synonymous with a sequence of appropriate : clauses? Ditto with traits and Cis, roles and Cdoes, attributes : and Chas, etc.; thus: : : class DangerousPet

Nature of traits

2003-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lang
I've just been rereading the recent discussions, and I noticed something that I missed the first time: Larry Wall wrote: Traits are not definitional but rather operationally defined in the worst way. That's why traits are renegade roles. They don't play by the rules. In other words, a

Re: Roles and Mix-ins?

2004-01-05 Thread Jonathan Lang
David Storrs wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:12:31AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:57:17AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: : For one, one role's methods don't silently override another's. : Instead, you get, er, role conflict and you have to disambiguate : yourself.

Re: Roles and Mix-ins?

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Lang
Joe Gottman wrote: How about something like class Trog does Dog {bark=dogBark} does Tree {bark=treeBark} {...} Then we could have code like my Trog $foo = Trog.new(); my Dog $spot := $foo; my Tree $willow := $foo; $spot.bark(); #

Re: Roles and Mix-ins?

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: Renaming methods defeats the purpose of roles. Roles are like interfaces inside-out. They guarantee a set of methods -- an interface -- except they provide the implementation to (in terms of other, required methods). Renaming the method destroys the interface

Re: Roles and Mix-ins?

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Lang
Joe Gottman wrote: Luke Palmer wrote: Your renaming can be done easily enough, and more clearly (IMO) with: class Trog does Dog does Tree { method bark() { ... } # Explicitly remove the provided method method dogBark() { .Dog::bark() } method treeBark() {

RE: Roles and Mix-ins?

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: There's two ways to look at that. One way is to say: I'm going to define an interface as being this OTHER thing minus a method. That seems like a positive construction, and supporting it might be desirable. The other way is to say: Nobody knows what methods call

supply and demand (was: Roles and Mix-ins?)

2004-01-07 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Austin Hastings wrote: There's two ways to look at that. One way is to say: I'm going to define an interface as being this OTHER thing minus a method. That seems like a positive construction, and supporting it might be desirable

Re: A modest question

2004-01-07 Thread Jonathan Lang
Piers Cawley wrote: Why does it have to be a String, though? What prevents it from working with anything that can stringify, besides the overly restrictive signature? What if you could say (the Perl 6 equivalent of): sub print_it ( does Stringify $thingie ) {

RE: A modest question

2004-01-07 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Maybe as an alternative to role Stringify {must stringify();} sub print_it (Stringify $thingie) {print $thingie.stringify();} you might be able to say sub print_it ($thingie must stringify()) { print $thingie.stringify

RE: A modest question

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Austin Hastings wrote: This kind of granularity does kind of imply a JavaScript-like ability to compose objects, too, no? (If you can compose requirements atomically, why not compose capabilities, too?) my $photon does Particle does

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Note that if we do take this approach, we'll have to require the space after = in @list = «a b c d e»; Perl 6 has already set the precedent of the presence or absence of whitespace being syntactically important (as opposed to Python, where the amount and type of

Re: Comma Operator

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Joe Gottman wrote: About a month ago, a thread here suggested that we change the meaning of the comma operator. Currently, in scalar context the expression foo(), bar() means evaluate foo(), discard the result, then return the value of bar(). It was suggested that this be changed to

RE: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: Larry Wall wrote: On the other hand, it's possible that we should extend the visual metaphor of »« and apply it asymmetrically when one of the arguments is expected to be scalar. That would mean that your last three lines would be written: (1,2,3) »+«

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
Dave Whipp wrote: But, presumably, you could write a macro that has a whitespace-eater encoded somehow. That is, macro leach() { chomp_trailing_whitespace; return » } macro reach () { chomp_leading_whitespace; return « } then the macro magic would expand leach eq reach as »eq« (which,

Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-01-28 Thread Jonathan Lang
Joseph Ryan wrote: Of course, roles are another great way to prevent confusion with multiple inheritance. A good question would be whether something like forget is useful in addition, or whether everyone should just use roles. :) For the record, roles are not a form of multiple inheritence.

RE: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: The danger isn't really in the ability to suppress a method from a given role or parent; the danger comes from the ability to suppress a method from _every_ role or parent. A safe alternative to this would be to define a class method which

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: Scott Walters writes: Would it be possible to subclass things on the fly, returning a specialized object representing the argument that knew how to vectorize when asked to add? Aren't add, subtract, multiply, and so on, implemented as class methods in Perl 6, much

RE: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Actually, no; roles don't _need_ suppress or rename options to disambiguate a conflict: the priority chain of class methods, then role methods, then inherited methods provides all the tools that are _required_ to remove ambiguities: you merely

Re: Fwd: Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-02-04 Thread Jonathan Lang
Joseph Ryan wrote: Well, what if the two classes you want to inherit from weren't designed with roles in mind? For instance, there might be two CPAN modules that each have a dozen methods that you want to inherit, but they each have 1 that overlap whose conflict you want to easily resolve.

Re: Traits: to renew OO inheritance in a hacker style discussion

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: What I'm currently thinking about is a does predicate that tells you if an object/class does a particular role completely. If you pull part of a role into a class, it returns false, because it doesn't do the complete role. However, if you use like instead, it returns a

dynamic arguments (was: The Sort Problem)

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Lang
Jonathan Lang wrote: Luke Palmer wrote: I've been thinking about this problem which comes up in my code a lot: @sorted = sort { $^a.foo('bar').compute = $^b.foo('bar').compute} @unsorted; Often the expressions on each side are even longer than that. But one

Re: dynamic arguments (was: The Sort Problem)

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: Jonathan Lang writes: How about including something similar to ==, but which binds the elements of the list to the various positional parameters? For instance: @sorted = sort {infix:= args map {$_.foo('bar').compute}, $^a, $^b } @unsorted

A12: Conflicting Attributes in Roles

2004-04-21 Thread Jonathan Lang
role A {has Cat $.x;} role B {has Dog $.x;} class Foo {does Cat; does Dog;} my Foo $bar; $bar.x; # Is this a Cat or a Dog? = Jonathan Dataweaver Lang __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢

A12: syntax to call Attributes

2004-04-21 Thread Jonathan Lang
How would I call attributes? Specifically, what if I'm calling a list attribute from a scalar object? my Dog $spot; my Dog @pack; $spot-@.legs; # INCORRECT (I hope) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # INCORRECT? @spot.legs;# What if you also have @spot declared? = Jonathan Dataweaver

RE: A12: Conflicting Attributes in Roles

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: role A {has Cat $.x;} role B {has Dog $.x;} class Foo {does Cat; does Dog;} my Foo $bar; $bar.x; # Is this a Cat or a Dog? A12 If, however, two roles try to introduce a method of the same name (for some definition of name

A12: nested roles

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
Can role definitions be nested? That is: role A { role subRole1 {...}; role subRole2 {...}; ... }; As I see it, this ought to be equivelent to role A::subRole1 {...}; role A::subRole2 {...}; role A { does A::subRole1; does A::subRole2; ... }; The advantage

A12: subtypes that lack methods or roles

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
How would I declare a subtype of a class which messes with the dispatching mechanism to exclude certain methods and/or roles from it? = Jonathan Dataweaver Lang __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for

Re: A12: Conflicting Attributes in Roles

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:37:58PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Note that the problem extends past accessors: a role's methods can : access its attributes directly. So: : : role A {has Cat $.x; method m1 {return $.x;};} : role B {has Dog $.x; method m2 {return $.x

A12: can, does, and isa in roles

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
One of the beauties of the original Traits paper was that its roles had ways of specifying assertions of what criteria must be met by whatever classes they were to be composed into. Meanwhile, it's been mentioned that roles and classes in P6 might look declarative in nature, but they are in fact

Re: A12: subtypes that lack methods or roles

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : How would I declare a subtype of a class which messes with the : dispatching mechanism to exclude certain methods and/or roles from : it? Er, uh...tell you what. Why don't you provide some sample code to go with your question, and we'll just

RE: A12: subtypes that lack methods or roles

2004-04-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
Dov Wasserman wrote: It's a valid question in general, but since you're designing this functionality from the ground up (and not retro-fitting it in to existing code), wouldn't the better approach be to create a non-GUI HList class, and a GUI subclass that adds the indicator methods? Or

Re: if not C, then what?

2004-07-01 Thread Jonathan Lang
Scott Bronson wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 18:41, Luke Palmer wrote: Larry didn't go for it. Note, we already have an operator that puts its left side in void context and evaluates it before its right one: we call it C;. But C; requires a surrounding do block, as you noted. I'm

Re: if not C, then what?

2004-07-01 Thread Jonathan Lang
Juerd wrote: Scott Bronson skribis 2004-07-01 14:11 (-0700): Juerd wrote: pray_to $_ ., then sacrifice $virgin for @evil_gods; I meant it without then, but apparently forgot to remove it. pray to $_ ., sacrifice $virgin for @evil_gods; Strictly from a grammatical perspective,

parameter contexts (was: Synopsis 9 draft 1)

2004-09-03 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Arrays with explicit ranges don't use the minus notation to count from the end. We probably need to come up with some other notation for the beginning and end indexes. But it'd be nice if that were a little shorter than: @ints.shape[0].beg @ints.shape[0].end

Re: parameter contexts (was: Synopsis 9 draft 1)

2004-09-03 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:31:49PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : I wonder if this notion of contextualizing a method's signature could : be generalized... I could see a case for treating most methods as if : the expressions in each parameter were being evaluated within

The last shall be last (was: The first shall be first)

2004-09-04 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: David Green wrote: : I actually found things I liked in pretty much all the suggested : alternatives, but none of them reached out and grabbed me by the : throat the way nth did. It just seems more Perlish. Yow. Presumably nth without an argument would mean the last.

Re: The last shall be last (was: The first shall be first)

2004-09-04 Thread Jonathan Lang
David Green wrote: Anyway, if we can have last, we should also have first (just for people who don't mind all the extra typing). No problem here, especially if C0th and Clast are synonyms - that is, make ..., -4th, -3rd, -2nd, -1st, 0th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ... be the underlying mechanism, and

Re: The first shall be first (was Re: parameter contexts (was: Synopsis 9 draft 1))

2004-09-04 Thread Jonathan Lang
David Green wrote: It is kind of comfortable. Which is why I think I'd like to keep the redundant nth (if we have first and last), aka 'th (where nth($i) and $i'th are just pre- and postfixed versions of each other). Especially important since there's a potential ambiguity problem between

Re: The last shall be last (was: The first shall be first)

2004-09-04 Thread Jonathan Lang
David Green wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: If C@foo[last+1]=$bar is equivalent to Cpush @foo, $bar, what happens if you say C@foo[last+2]=$bar? While I like the notion that subtracting from first or adding to last takes you beyond the bounds of the list, you generally can't go more than

Re: The last shall be last

2004-09-04 Thread Jonathan Lang
John Williams wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: The only place where it makes sense to wrap is when you define 0th as the final element, making it logical that 0th+1 == 1st and 1st-1 == 0th. I don't think 0th is a good name for the final element. I've never seen it used for that. I've only

Re: The last shall be last

2004-09-07 Thread Jonathan Lang
Smylers wrote: (But personally I'm quite happy with zero-based arrays, so as long as -1 continues to work for those I'm not too bothered what happens with other cases.) This is an interesting point: can the perl optimizer be made to treat 0-based contiguous lists in the same way that perl 5

Re: more ordinal discussion

2004-09-07 Thread Jonathan Lang
Juerd wrote: John Williams wrote: 4 :th $foo :th No. Adverbs modify verbs (operators or functions), not terms like 4 or $foo. Then perhaps a method? Number::th? 4.th $foo.th Again, with a bit of magic where the dot is optional when the object in question is an

Re: more ordinal discussion

2004-09-08 Thread Jonathan Lang
Juerd wrote: Michael Homer skribis 2004-09-08 15:54 (+1200): I think (correct me) what he's getting at here is a sparse array 1=a, 3=b, 4=c where 2nd is 'b' (the second item) but 1st+1 is undefined (there is no index 2). I don't know how well that scheme works from a comprehension

Re: Ordinals, Hashes, and Arrays, oh my

2004-09-11 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: David Green wrote: : And if you restrict your hash to numeric keys, Perl could notice and : optimise it into an array. (Or integer keys, or positive integers, or : a consecutive range of positive ints) What exactly do you mean by could notice? The point about the

forany, forall...

2005-01-16 Thread Jonathan Lang
How would I do the following in Perl 6? if a given condition is true for every element in a list, do something. or if a given condition is true for any element in a list, do something. = Jonathan Dataweaver Lang __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-13 Thread Jonathan Lang
Rod Adams wrote: Now that I've gotten some feedback from my original message (on list and off), and have had some time to think about it some more, I've come to some conclusions: Junctions are Sets. (if not, they would make more sense if they were.) As pointed out elsewhere, Junctions

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-22 Thread Jonathan Lang
Michele Dondi wrote: OTOH all these discussions seem to imply that there is some demand (by me, for one!) for a set-like builtin data-type as well as for the already existing hashes and junctions and of course for interoperability between any two of them, e.g. in terms of automatic

Adding Complexity

2005-04-26 Thread Jonathan Lang
As an exercise, I've been looking into what could be done in terms of creating a complex numbers package that takes advantage of perl 6 technology. A couple of thoughts that I ran across: When you take the square root of a number, you actually get one of two possible answers (for instance,

Re: Role Method Conflicts and Disambiguation

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathan Lang
To me, the distinguishing feature between the role and class concepts has always been that roles lack internal structure: you don't have to worry about any hierarchies of what went into creating the role; you just have to pay attention to what attributes and methods it will add to whatever class

Re: Role Method Conflicts and Disambiguation (Theory-theoretic take)

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathan Lang
On 10/28/05, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's how I see roles. This is just an attempt to formalize our concepts so that the answer becomes an obvious truth rather than a decision. A role is an interface with some default implementations. -snip- Now we ignore the inner workings

Re: Role Method Conflicts and Disambiguation

2005-11-01 Thread Jonathan Lang
Yuval Kogman wrote: Stevan Little wrote: If we allow the class to decide if things break or not, then we potentially allow for the system to be in a very unstable state. A method conflict means that neither method gets consumed, and at that point we have a gapping hole in our class.

Role Method Conflicts and Disambiguation

2005-11-01 Thread Jonathan Lang
Rob Kinyon wrote: 1. choose one of a set of available methods to call its own. 2. create a version of its own. 3. pass the buck. #1 and #2 are identical. Stevan and I have always viewed #1 as a special case of #2. If you want to choose a method to call, then create a method of your own

Re: Role Method Conflicts and Disambiguation

2005-11-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: People keep using the word hierarchy when talking about roles and I keep thinking that it is the one word that definitely does NOT apply. Heirarchies are for classes and inheritance relationships, not roles and composition. In my world view, a role that is composed

private methods and role composition

2005-11-05 Thread Jonathan Lang
First off: is there a way to declare a method as being private to a role? Second: can a role reclassify as private a method that is composed into it from another role? -- Jonathan Dataweaver Lang

Test Case: Complex Numbers

2005-11-09 Thread Jonathan Lang
The following is an attempt to put a number of Perl6 concepts into practice, in order to see how useful and intuitive they actually are. Complex numbers come in two representations: rectilinear coordinates and polar coordinates: class complexRectilinear { has $.x, $.y; method infix:+ ($a is

Re: Test Case: Complex Numbers

2005-11-11 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: Just some initial thoughts and syntax issues. I'll come back to it on the conceptual side a little later. I'm looking forward to it. Jonathan Lang wrote: method coerce:complexPolar () returns complexPolar { return new complexPolar ($.x * $.x + $.y * $.y, atn($.y

Re: Test Case: Complex Numbers

2005-11-14 Thread Jonathan Lang
Doug McNutt wrote: As for complex operations which have multiple results I think a principle value approach makes more sense than a list. It's well established for the inverse trigonometric functions. Leave RootOf( ) to Maple and Mathematica. In the hypothetical module that I'm describing, the

Problem with dwimmery

2005-12-22 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: Recently, I believe we decided that {} should, as a special case, be an empty hash rather than a do-nothing code, because that's more common. However, what do we do about: while $x-- some_condition($x) {} Here, while is being passed a hash, not a do-nothing code.

Re: Junctions again (was Re: binding arguments)

2006-01-03 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: Whatever solution we end up with for Junctions, Larry wants it to support this: if $x == 1 | 2 | 3 {...} And I'm almost sure that I agree with him. It's too bad, because except for that little detail, fmap was looking pretty darn nice for junctions. Not really. If

S3 vs. S4: parallel lists

2006-01-03 Thread Jonathan Lang
I think there might be a discrepency between S3 and S4. S3: In order to support parallel iteration over multiple arrays, Perl 6 has a zip function that builds tuples of the elements of two or more arrays. for zip(@names; @codes) - [$name, $zip] { print Name: $name; Zip code:

choice of signatures

2006-01-04 Thread Jonathan Lang
Instead of multi sub *infix:~(ArabicStr $s1, ArabicStr $s2) {...} multi sub *infix:~(Str $s1, ArabicStr $s2) {...} multi sub *infix:~(ArabicStr $s1, Str $s2) {...} could you say multi sub *infix:~(ArabicStr $s1, ArabicStr | Str $s2) | (Str $s1, ArabicStr $s2) {...} or something

Re: Junctions again (was Re: binding arguments)

2006-01-05 Thread Jonathan Lang
Rob Kinyon wrote: To me, this implies that junctions don't have a complete definition. Either they're ordered or they're not. Either I can put them in a = expression and it makes sense or I can't. If it makes sense, then that implies that if $x = $y is true, then $x $y is false. Otherwise,

Re: Junctions again (was Re: binding arguments)

2006-01-05 Thread Jonathan Lang
Me no follow. Please use smaller words? -- Jonathan Dataweaver Lang

Re: Table of Perl 6 Types

2006-01-12 Thread Jonathan Lang
Dave Whipp wrote: An Int is Enumerable: each value that is an Int has well defined succ and pred values. Conversely, a Real does not -- and so arguably should not support the ++ and -- operators. Amonst other differences, a Range[Real] is an infinite set, whereas a Range[Int] has a finite

Table of Perl 6 Types

2006-01-12 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: That's good, because that's what it does. A range object in list context expands into a list, but in scalar context it is there for smart-matching purposes: 3.5 ~~ 3..4 # true 4 ~~ 3..^4 # false etc. The only remaining problem is that we have no syntax

Re: Table of Perl 6 Types

2006-01-12 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:29:29PM +, Luke Palmer wrote: : The only remaining problem is that we have no syntax for ...3, which : doesn't make sense as a list, but does make sense as a range. Well, it could be a lazy list that you only ever pop, I suppose. In any event,

Re: Indeterminate forms for the Num type.

2006-01-17 Thread Jonathan Lang
Audrey Tang wrote: Assuming num uses the underlying floating point semantic (which may turn 0/0 into NaN without raising exception), what should the default Num do on these forms? 0/0 0*Inf Inf/Inf Inf-Inf 0**0 Inf**0 1**Inf

Re: split on empty string

2006-01-18 Thread Jonathan Lang
Mark Reed wrote: Perl6 .split(/whatever/) is equivalent to split(/whatever/,) in Perl5. I'm hoping that the perl 5 syntax will still be valid in perl 6. -- Jonathan Dataweaver Lang

Re: as if [Was: Selective reuse of storage in bless.]

2006-01-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
. :) -- Jonathan Lang

Re: The definition of 'say'

2006-02-08 Thread Jonathan Lang
carries so far. That said, I very rarely set $/, so this aspect of 'say' doesn't really affect me. -- Jonathan Lang

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-08 Thread Jonathan Lang
Consider my Dog $spot. From the Perl6-to-English Dictionary: Dog: a dog. $spot: the dog that is named Spot. ^Dog: the concept of a dog. Am I understanding things correctly? If so, here's what I'd expect: a dog can bark, or Spot can bark; but the concept of a dog cannot bark: can Dog

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-08 Thread Jonathan Lang
Stevan Little wrote: Yes, that is correct, because: Dog.isa(Dog) # true $spot.isa(Dog) # true ^Dog.isa(Dog) # false In fact ^Dog isa MetaClass (or Class whatever you want to call it). At least that is how I see/understand it. OK. To help me get a better idea about what's going on

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Lang
Stevan Little wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: OK. To help me get a better idea about what's going on here, what sorts of attributes and methods would ^Dog have? Well, a metaclass describes the behaviors and attributes of a class, and ^Dog is an *instance* of the metaclass. So actually ^Dog

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Lang
Stevan Little wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: OK; apparently, what I meant when I asked what methods and attributes does ^Dog have? is what you're talking about when you speak of which methods ^Dog will respond to. To me, an object has whatever methods that it responds to. I disagree

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-12 Thread Jonathan Lang
Thomas Sandlass wrote: or maybe method Dog.bark () { ... } Yes that works too. Shouldn't that read Dog::bark? Why the dot? Because I'm not 100% with the proper syntax of things. The intent was to add a bark() method to Dog during runtime. -- Jonathan Dataweaver Lang

Re: Selective String Interpolation

2006-02-18 Thread Jonathan Lang
Piers Cawley wrote: And backwhacking braces in generated code is *not* a pretty solution to my eyes. I'd *like* to be able to have a quasiquoting environment along the lines of lisp's backquote (though I'm not sure about the unquoting syntax): Let me see if I understand this correctly:

Re: Selective String Interpolation

2006-02-18 Thread Jonathan Lang
Brad Bowman wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Let me see if I understand this correctly: Instead of interpolation being enabled by default with backwhacks selectively disabling it, you want something where interpolation is disabled by default with anti-backwhacks selectively enabling it. Right

Re: Selective String Interpolation

2006-02-19 Thread Jonathan Lang
Brad Bowman wrote: I don't like the idea of sharing the adverb between escaping and force-interpolating since stacking other adverbs can turn q into qq and vice-versa. That's a minor quibble though. And a reasonable one as well. I was trying to minimize the proliferation of adverbs, but I

s29 and Complex numbers

2006-02-23 Thread Jonathan Lang
If you're going to have versions of sqrt in S29 that deal with Complex numbers, you ought to do likewise with a number of other functions: multi sub abs (: Complex ?$x = $CALLER::_ ) returns Num should return the magnitude of a complex number. abs($x) := $x.magnitude, or whatever the

Re: s29 and Complex numbers

2006-02-28 Thread Jonathan Lang
between sqrt($x) (which returns the principle value) and any sqrt($x) (which returns a disjunction of every possible result): more flexible and more readable than trying for implicit junctional return values. -- Jonathan Lang

Re: s29 and Complex numbers

2006-02-28 Thread Jonathan Lang
Doug McNutt wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Technically, the result set is one element (the principle value), since a mathematical function - by definition - produces a single result for any given input. Please be careful of definitions like that. Computer science has quite different ideas

Re: Multisubs and multimethods: what's the difference?

2006-03-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: A multi sub presents only an MMD interface, while a multi method presents both MMD and SMD interfaces. In this case, there's not much point in the SMD inteface since .. used as infix is always going to call the MMD interface. So: multi method : MMD and SMD multi sub: MMD

Fwd: Multisubs and multimethods: what's the difference?

2006-03-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Stevan Little wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Can subs be declared within classes? Can methods be declared without classes? I would say yes. Having subs inside classes makes creating small utility functions easier. You could also use private methods for this, but if I dont need to pass

Re: Multisubs and multimethods: what's the difference?

2006-03-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Stevan Little wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: Steven Little wrote: $object does unattached_method; ^Object does unattached_method; (Wouldn't that be ^$object does unattached_method;?) No, I am attaching the method (well role really) to the class ^Object. There is no such thing

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
Damian Conway wrote: One might argue that it would be more useful to return a result object whose boolean value is the success or failure, whose numeric and string values are the number of files *un*changed, and whose list value is the list of those *un*changed files. Then you could write:

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lang
Mark Overmeer wrote: * Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060327 01:07]: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:40:03PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : On the original question, I see it more as a junctional issue. : Assuming we have only chmod($,$), this sould autothread: : : unless chmod MODE,

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-27 Thread Jonathan Lang
? Or provide adverbs for the junctive functions that can be used to change their short-circuiting behavior. Or both. -- Jonathan Lang

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