Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-15 Thread Christian Renz
Not really, except insofar as we've talked about compact classes of native types working like C structs. There are lots of nitty things we can fix with pack/unpack, but the basic underlying problem is that pack/unpack are defined operationally rather than declaratively. I think it's worth takin

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-14 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/14/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh, that classification was a fast guess about RFCs made more than > 4 years ago. I'm amazed it's stood up as well as it has, even where > it hasn't. I agree, and lacking anything I could find more recent, initially thought it was the right way

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:38:43AM -0400, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: : On 6/13/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > Since it might not have been clear from my earlier post -- I've : > now committed the S17 framework draft into the repository. Thanks. : : I am now questioning using

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-14 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/13/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since it might not have been clear from my earlier post -- I've > now committed the S17 framework draft into the repository. Thanks. I am now questioning using "Perl6 Timeline By Apocolypse" as reference material. I am rather intereste

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-13 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:22:59PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:36:52PM -0400, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > > > I have included a sample framework for chapter 17. Theoretically, > > someone could then go search the archives for decision points in any > > of those headi

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-13 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:22:59PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:36:52PM -0400, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > > Ok, are there any guidelines for what should and should not be put > > forward as a patch. > [...] > For anything that doesn't come from @Larry or $Larry, I th

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-13 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:36:52PM -0400, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > Ok, are there any guidelines for what should and should not be put > forward as a patch. I can see 3 key areas of concern: > > 1. Framework for unwritten Synopses (so we know what goes where) > 2. Heading placeholders for written

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/10/05, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm. Thanks. I guess I will have to go back over the questions I > have asked and see if any decisions were rendered not relfected in > docs and be a pioneer. Ok, are there any guidelines for what should and should not be put forward as a

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/10/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This already exists -- the design documents are all available from > http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk . And I've already volunteered > to review/apply patches to the design documents or forward them to > the appropriate people for rev

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:51:15PM -0400, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > I know that decisions are subject to change but having the current > state of decisions in a single location (Synopses) would be a great > benefit to all. I am a firm believer in not complaining unless you > have an idea about how t