On Wednesday 30 August 2006 19:14, Luke Palmer wrote:
> The problem with PHP is not that it has
> too much functionality, but that it is organized extremely poorly.
That's really my point. I'm all for adding necessary features to Parrot where
they're appropriate, but not in such a way that they
On 8/31/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/30/06, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The problem with PHP is not that it has
>
too much functionality, but that it is organized extremely poorly.
Amen. PHP is the poster child for namespace pollution. And PHP5 actually
has
On 8/30/06, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem with PHP is not that it has
too much functionality, but that it is organized extremely poorly.
Amen. PHP is the poster child for namespace pollution. And PHP5 actually
has the tools to stop the madness; it's just a question of
On 8/30/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 04:12, Watson Ladd wrote:
> Seriously, what's so bad about adding functionality into
> a language?
I once saw an overfilled waterbed that was almost as tall as I am. I would
have called it PHP, but it didn't explode a
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 04:12, Watson Ladd wrote:
> Seriously, what's so bad about adding functionality into
> a language?
I once saw an overfilled waterbed that was almost as tall as I am. I would
have called it PHP, but it didn't explode and throw cold water all over the
house.
-- c
Matt Diephouse wrote:
Joshua Juran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Matt Diephouse wrote:
> I would like to add some sort methods as well: quicksort(),
> mergesort(), etc. But as methods, there is potential for these to end
> up in a user-visible space.
>
> Say for examp
Joshua Juran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Matt Diephouse wrote:
> I would like to add some sort methods as well: quicksort(),
> mergesort(), etc. But as methods, there is potential for these to end
> up in a user-visible space.
>
> Say for example, that I add a merges
On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Matt Diephouse wrote:
I would like to add some sort methods as well: quicksort(),
mergesort(), etc. But as methods, there is potential for these to end
up in a user-visible space.
Say for example, that I add a mergesort method to AbstractPMCArray.
Ruby's array clas
I'm going to start working on an AbstractPMCArray PMC class that can
provide some default array vtable functions for other PMCs to inherit.
This will give array classes some functionality for free.
AbstractPMCArray will implement splice, for example, which can be
implemented using an array's exter
