On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:47:17AM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: > I've tried asking if lists are literals or not... but I've been Warnock'd.
I have comments to make on several things posted recently. I'm waiting for my boss to ask our legal department if I can contribute. There may be others doing the same thing. > > I also think -documentation is the wrong place to > > discuss this. > > Yes. There seems to be a bit language design going on under the subtext of > documentation. We are here to ask questions that provoke Larry to > disambiguate. Not come up with our own answers. I think that they are. There are some things here that we know the answer to <emdash> they've been discussed already and someone remembers what was decided. There are also some things that we don't know the answer to because they haven't been discussed at all. > If I can borrow a bit of time from my non-existant pool, I'll try to > summarize the syntax issues... But aren't the 1*10:9, -2:1 or 2:-1, 0:0, > 1:0, 37:aA, etc. issues exactly the type of questions we're supposed to be > steering back to perl6-language? I think you're right about the need to collate the stuff nobody's mentioned yet into a set of coherent questions to ask. andrew -- Aries: (March 21 - April 19) Someday, you'll look back on all of this and laugh very, very bitterly.
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