Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14325 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-16 Thread John Macdonald
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:29:21PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:14:01PM -0400, Zev Benjamin wrote: > : If the idea of having an author attribute is to allow multiple > : implementations of a module, why not add an API version attribute? The > : idea would be to detach the

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14325 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:14:01PM -0400, Zev Benjamin wrote: : If the idea of having an author attribute is to allow multiple : implementations of a module, why not add an API version attribute? The : idea would be to detach the module version number from the module API : version number. I was t

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14325 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-15 Thread Zev Benjamin
If the idea of having an author attribute is to allow multiple implementations of a module, why not add an API version attribute? The idea would be to detach the module version number from the module API version number. This way, if I want to reimplement Foo::Bar, I wouldn't be required to use th

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14325 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-09 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Mar 9 16:38:18 2007 New Revision: 14325 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod Log: As noted by allbery_b++, Smylers++, and david.green++, we've thoroughly neglected to thoroughly spec the intended version sharing and emulation model. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S