On 5/29/07, Larry Wall wrote:
Note that any is considered a singular noun in English,
I started to say, Except when it means 'all', but when used that
way, it still would mean all in the singular sense. But it gives
me an excuse to point out that any can be ambiguous in English;
it's not
At 5:36 PM -0600 5/31/07, David Green wrote:
On 5/29/07, Larry Wall wrote:
In any case, the Huffman coding is probably right because you want
to declare Any parameters more often than you want to talk about any
possible kind of Object, I suspect.
Are Objects really Everything? What about
Larry Wall writes:
... I'm not too worried about the counterintuitiveness of it, by and
large. It's much like that little embarrassing problem in physics
that a GUT is neither as grand nor as unified as a TOE. :)
Hmm, maybe we should just rename Object to something more generic.
Nah, the
My counterintuition just went off again. The more restrictive type is
called Any? Object includes junctions?
On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author: larry
Date: Tue May 29 14:18:27 2007
New Revision: 14407
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log:
Clarification
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:46:21PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: My counterintuition just went off again. The more restrictive type is
: called Any? Object includes junctions?
Well, yes, Everything is an Object is the politically correct mantra. :)
And in Perl 6, Any does not really mean any
Well, yes, Everything is an Object is the politically correct mantra. :)
True, but junctions aren't usually in the scope of CS PC...
OK, so let me see if I can wrap a conceptualization around this.
Logically, the type Object is itself a junction, that of all
possible types, while Any means
At 4:40 PM -0700 5/29/07, Larry Wall wrote:
Hmm, maybe we should just rename Object to something more generic.
There are plenty of candidates:
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