Re: standard representations

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Buckingham
Dan Sugalski wrote: > And, unless Larry objects, I feel that all vtable methods should have > the option of going with a 'scalar native' form if the operation if it's > determined at runtime that two scalars are the same type, though this is > optional and bay be skipped for cost reasons. (Doing

RE: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Buckingham
--| UML is extremely useful as a design language. I wonder, though, how --| a distributed collaborative effort can utilize it. i think that what has to happen is that some one (larry, Dan, anyone?) comes up with a top level object decompostion and then those boxes get farmed out to people to fil

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core ShouldHaveWell-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Buckingham
> > > >Try Martin Fowler's UML Distilled, very good and short! > > Is it available electronically, or do I need to trot over to Quantum Books > and drop some cash on it? (Man, they love me there...) If it's paper, got > an ISBN? > uhm unfortunately it'll cost you its about $30USD (i fortunately

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should HaveWell-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Buckingham
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 04:17 PM 9/28/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: > > > I think, though, that the core interface should be procedural. > > > >I agree. We should not confuse OOD with OOP. > > Fair enough, and I was. > > I've no experience with UML, though. Got a pointer to a quick overview?