Re: Is S05 correct?

2006-02-06 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:29:54PM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote: >This may be a stupid question, but where can I view the fixed Synopsis? I don't think it's a stupid question at all. Larry could have meant "it's fixed in my working copy" when he said "fixed!" and there would be no possibility for

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-06 Thread Matt Fowles
Larry~ On 2/6/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is mostly motivated by linguistics rather than computer science, > insofar as types/classes/roles in natural language are normally > represented by generic objects rather than "meta" objects. When I > ask in English: > > Can a dog

Re: Is S05 correct?

2006-02-06 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:29:54PM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote: >This may be a stupid question, but where can I view the fixed Synopsis? > When I go to http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S05.html, I see that > the modification date is November 16, 2005. Is this the most up-to-date > version?

RE: Is S05 correct?

2006-02-06 Thread Joe Gottman
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 3:03 PM > To: perl6-language@perl.org > Subject: Re: Is S05 correct? > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:26:44AM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: > : --- Larry Wall wrote: > : > Yes, that's a typo.

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-06 Thread Luke Palmer
On 2/6/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is mostly motivated by linguistics rather than computer science, > insofar as types/classes/roles in natural language are normally > represented by generic objects rather than "meta" objects. When I > ask in English: > > Can a dog bark? >

Re: Macros?

2006-02-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:32:08AM +0100, Brad Bowman wrote: : : Hi, : : I've read and reread the macro explanation but I'm still not entirely : clear on number of things. The questions and thoughts below are based : on my (mis)understanding. : : On 03/02/06 02:05, Larry Wall wrote: : >Macr

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-06 Thread Darren Duncan
At 3:02 PM +0800 2/6/06, Audrey Tang wrote: On 2/6/06, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Speaking briefly, I would like it if Perl 6 provided a way for a class (or role, or meta-class, etc) to declare that all variables declared to be of that type are automatically/implicitly set to a

Re: Is S05 correct?

2006-02-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:26:44AM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: : --- Larry Wall wrote: : > Yes, that's a typo. : : Which reminds me, I noticed some Synopsis typos as follows. Fixed, thanks! Larry

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:26:09PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: : Part way through writing this, I had a brief chat on #perl6 with : stevan (and apparently the meta-model is still quite in flux) and he : said my question was related to Larry's "class but undef" idea, and : that Larry should talk