Re: A12: Naming Police - "P6opaque"

2004-04-19 Thread John Siracusa
On 4/19/04 3:36 PM, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:04:55PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: > : So, how about "Perl6opaque" (or "Perl6Opaque"), just to be safe :) > > How 'bout just "Opaque", meaning Parrot's native object type, or whatever > the native opaque type is for the platform i

Re: A12: Naming Police - "P6opaque"

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:04:55PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: : >From page 7: : : > In any event, strings are reserved for other object layouts. We could : > conceivably have things like: : > : >return $class.bless("Cstruct", *%_); : > : > So as it happens, 0 is short for the layout "P6opaque

A12: Naming Police - "P6opaque"

2004-04-19 Thread John Siracusa
>From page 7: > In any event, strings are reserved for other object layouts. We could > conceivably have things like: > >return $class.bless("Cstruct", *%_); > > So as it happens, 0 is short for the layout "P6opaque". I feel like "we" have pretty well staked out the letters p-e-r-l, but anyth