The terms "function" and "relation" as used in programming languages have
meanings carved out of the pure concepts by the, sometimes, judicious
application of Ockham's Chainsaw Massacre in order to "get things done".
I am speaking of the pure concepts.
Procedures are sequences of statements. Sta
Backing off from the esoterica, is Per6 lazy machinery going to include a
feature like the one I suggested for MooseX here:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1050219
Maybe Perl 7.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's get the basics nailed down and working so that we can learn
> them, before wandering any further into theoretical CS.
>
> On 8/18/13, James Bowery wrote:
> > Of t
Of the two key conceptual gaps in current programming language philosophy
-- commensurability and change propagation -- commensurability, if filled
with due rigor, has the greatest potential for clearing up confusion by
recasting other core features as derivative. Change propagation (eg:
properly
