re: code name for perl 6

2000-10-20 Thread foo . bar
in the beginning... >"you may call it 'expert-friendly' if you want." -- tom christiansen >"so-called 'expert friendly' programming languages often wake up to >find themselves befriended only by experts." -- the code name "omega" would be a fitting handle...after all, this will be

RE: What will be the Perl6 code name ?!!

2000-10-20 Thread foo . bar
what is perl..? >"you may call it 'expert-friendly' if you want." -- tom christiansen >"so-called 'expert friendly' programming languages often wake up to >find themselves befriended only by experts." -- the code name "omega" would be a fitting handle...after all, this will be the

Re: code name for perl 6

2000-10-20 Thread Bart Lateur
On 19 Oct 2000 22:01:23 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >the code name "omega" would be a fitting handle...after all, this will be >the last perl of all...i am obviously assuming perl 6 will not be still born. Hey, why not something in the line of "2PI" ("P2PI"?). After all, 2 * PI is what the v

stackless python

2000-10-20 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2000/10/04/stackless-intro.html -- May the best description of competition prevail. (via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank)

Re: What will be the Perl6 code name ?!!

2000-10-20 Thread David L. Nicol
raptor wrote: > What will be the Perl6 code name ? > even the perl books has some animal to represent the main idea behind... or > just for the fun. 0gre

Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

2000-10-20 Thread John Porter
Jerrad Pierce wrote: > > What about Hexane? Arthropod (or some insect)? Hmmm "anthracite" ? -- John Porter

renaming local to "hold"

2000-10-20 Thread David L. Nicol
Nathan Torkington wrote: > I'd rather not revisit this, or any other, RFC until Larry's had a > chance to *really* comment and put forward his suggestions. I think pitching renames for "local" is at least as worthwhile as pitching code names. How about "Hold?" It isn't listed in Blackstone's

RE: What will be the Perl6 code name ?!!

2000-10-20 Thread Frank Schmuck, CFO
Carbon - not just a perl but a diamond in the rough. -Original Message- From: raptor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:What will be the Perl6 code name ?!! hi, Most of the software projects has their cod

Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

2000-10-20 Thread grommel
How about the traditional birthstone for the 6th month (June)? That would be Alexandrite. This has the added advantage of being named after Tsar Alexander I, who, like Perl, was ruler over a vast domain.

Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

2000-10-20 Thread Jerrad Pierce
>How about the traditional birthstone for the 6th month (June)? That would >be Alexandrite. This has the added advantage of being named after Tsar >Alexander I, who, like Perl, was ruler over a vast domain. Ha ha ha, obscure pun http://www.birthstones.com/stone_jun.html However come perl

Re: renaming local to "fornow" (or maybe just "now")

2000-10-20 Thread David L. Nicol
Bart Lateur wrote: > > "The Chiefs have scored a touchdown, now they will try for the extra point" > > could be expressed in gamerules::americanfootball as > > > > now $points{touchdown} = 2; > > now $points{fieldgoal} = 1; > > If you use "now" as a replacement for "local", sh

compile-time taint checking and the halting problem

2000-10-20 Thread David L. Nicol
Steve Fink wrote (and I edited slightly): > I can't figure out why so many people misinterpret my RFC12 > as requiring a solution to the halting problem. a large class of incompletely expressed suggestions appear to get grouped into "This requires solving the halting problem!" without provid

Re: C Sharp?

2000-10-20 Thread David L. Nicol
John Porter wrote: > I have heard (via a presumably reliable source) that MicroS..t has > contracted Corel to port C# to linux. It will be a binary-only port that only runs on strongarm processors -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don'

Re: C Sharp?

2000-10-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 04:56:31PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > John Porter wrote: > > > I have heard (via a presumably reliable source) that MicroS..t has > > contracted Corel to port C# to linux. > > > It will be a binary-only port that only runs on strongarm processors There is a GPL arm

Re: (COPY) compile-time taint checking and the halting problem

2000-10-20 Thread Steve Fink
(moved off of -meta) "David L. Nicol" wrote: > > Steve Fink wrote (and I edited slightly): > > > I can't figure out why so many people misinterpret my RFC12 > > as requiring a solution to the halting problem. > > a large class of incompletely expressed > suggestions appear to get grouped int

Re: (COPY) compile-time taint checking and the halting problem

2000-10-20 Thread David L. Nicol
Steve Fink wrote: > It's standard semantic analysis. Both your taintedness analysis and my > reachability analyses can be fully described by specifying what things > generate the characteristic you're analyzing, what things block (in the > literature, "kill") it, and the transfer rules. It's ofte

Re: compile-time taint checking and the halting problem

2000-10-20 Thread Steve Fink
Oops, replied to the wrong message (that's why there was a "(COPY)" there). "David L. Nicol" wrote: > > Steve Fink wrote: > > > It's standard semantic analysis. Both your taintedness analysis and my > > reachability analyses can be fully described by specifying what things > > generate the char

Re: renaming local to "hold"

2000-10-20 Thread J. David Blackstone
> Nathan Torkington wrote: > >> I'd rather not revisit this, or any other, RFC until Larry's had a >> chance to *really* comment and put forward his suggestions. > > I think pitching renames for "local" is at least as worthwhile as > pitching code names. How about "Hold?" It isn't listed in Bla