Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-20 Thread Simon Cozens
We're getting wildly off topic. And there's no PDD for the JIT, either. -- FAILURE: When Your Best Just Isn't Good Enough http://www.despair.com

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:22 AM + 2/19/02, Piers Cawley wrote: >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The first person to say "But XP says code first!" will be summarily >> mocked, as that's completely full of crap. You have been warned. :) > >Actually, XP says tests/interface first and be prepared to chan

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-19 Thread Piers Cawley
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first person to say "But XP says code first!" will be summarily > mocked, as that's completely full of crap. You have been warned. :) Actually, XP says tests/interface first and be prepared to change it if the code tells you to. But XP is specifical

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-19 Thread Dave Mitchell
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrpote: > Implementation should be capable of being yanked out and replaced > with no notice, and things still work. It is, and should be, > considered ephemeral. It's the least important thing to get right, > since it can be fixed or completely replaced as we n

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:18 PM + 2/17/02, Simon Cozens wrote: >COMMITTERS PLEASE NOTE: I'd like you to ensure that any changes you commit in >the future, whether by yourself or anyone else, has an associated PDD. When I >say "any", I expect you to use your discretion - things to fix up warnings, >typoes, minor al

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-18 Thread Alex Gough
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Buggs wrote: > Index: docs/pdds/pdd6.pod Yuck! Can we not have 01_parrot.pod or something we can spot from a distance? I'll fix up bignum pdd-ness once I'm a bit less busy, which may not be for a week or so. Alex Gough

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:06 PM -0500 2/17/02, Josh Wilmes wrote: >PDD 7 (coding standards) is also still MIA, although i understand that it's >basically complete. And now it's in. :) -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugal

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:42 AM +0100 2/18/02, Buggs wrote: >And this takes care of the dublicate entries in pdd6, as they seem to have >slipped in again. PDD 6 was an old version. I updated it with the contents of parrot_assembly.pod, which is the up-to-date version. -- Dan

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-17 Thread Josh Wilmes
Bravo! PDD 7 (coding standards) is also still MIA, although i understand that it's basically complete. --Josh At 16:18 on 02/17/2002 GMT, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just starting to think about writing something on the history and > evolution of Parrot's design, and came

Re: PDDs, guys.

2002-02-17 Thread Buggs
On Sunday 17 February 2002 17:18, Simon Cozens wrote: > Yes, I'm being an anal retentive asshole. It's my job. Nah, this time you are not ;P On to the pdds ... There seems to be some part missing from pdd2, at the bottom. And this takes care of the dublicate entries in pdd6, as they seem to ha

PDDs, guys.

2002-02-17 Thread Simon Cozens
I was just starting to think about writing something on the history and evolution of Parrot's design, and came across some PDDs in the mail archives. Grief, I remember these things! These were meant to document the design, what we'd decided, why those decisions were a bad idea, what we chose inste