Re: Fully-qualified symbols and exportation

2005-12-14 Thread Luke Palmer
On 12/15/05, Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should this mean? > > package Foo; > sub Bar::baz is export { ... } > > The problem is in how callers request this export. > > use Foo ; Hmm. My gut reaction is that that is the correct way to request that export. > Looks w

Fully-qualified symbols and exportation

2005-12-14 Thread Gaal Yahas
What should this mean? package Foo; sub Bar::baz is export { ... } The problem is in how callers request this export. use Foo ; Looks weird, as this demonstrates: package Foo; sub baz is export { "I am Foo::baz" } sub Bar::baz is export { "I am Bar::baz" } C

Re: relational data models and Perl 6

2005-12-14 Thread Luke Palmer
On 12/15/05, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I propose, perhaps redundantly, that Perl 6 include a complete set of > native Okay, I'm with you here. Just please stop saying "native" and "core". Everyone. Remember, syntax in Perl 6 can be stuffed in a library like anything else. You

relational data models and Perl 6

2005-12-14 Thread Darren Duncan
All, P.S. What follows is rough and will be smoothed out or reworked. I propose, perhaps redundantly, that Perl 6 include a complete set of native language constructs for a relational data model, akin to that introduced in E. F. Codd's classic paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shar

Re: Some thoughts on threading

2005-12-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:18:47 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:16 +0100, Ron Blaschke wrote: >> The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software." >> [1] He starts with "The biggest sea change in software development since >> the OO revolution is knocking

Call For Pumpking: Do you want a Ponie?

2005-12-14 Thread jesse
Two and a half years ago, Fotango announced their sponsorship of the Perl 6 effort, in the form of the "Ponie" project to port the Perl 5 runtime to the Parrot Virtual Machine. For the past year, Nicholas Clark has worked as the pumpking for Ponie as part of his work for Fotango. He's recently move