Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-23 Thread Damian Conway
> In general I like where this is going but need a little hand holding > here- I'm not an expert on junctions or anything perl6- > >> So I'm going to go on to propose that we create a fifth class of >> Junction: the "transjunction", with corresponding keyword C. > > It seems that by these definitio

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-23 Thread yary
In general I like where this is going but need a little hand holding here- I'm not an expert on junctions or anything perl6- > So I'm going to go on to propose that we create a fifth class of > Junction: the "transjunction", with corresponding keyword C. It seems that by these definitions "every"

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-23 Thread Damian Conway
Brandon mused: > It occurs to me:  If their purpose is that narrow, why are they wasting > conceptual space in the core language? Well, mainly because their purpose isn't narrow at all: it's parallelized data comparisons (all(@values) < $threshold), and multiway comparisons (all(@values) ~~ any(@

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-23 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/22/10 13:00 , Dave Whipp wrote: > Damian Conway wrote: >> I've been thinking about junctions, and I believe we may need a small >> tweak to (at least) the jargon in one part of the specification. > > When this issue has been raised in the past,