Re: Anyone actually experienced with object inheritance?

2001-07-03 Thread Joe McMahon
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Bart Schuller wrote: > The Apple Newton was programmed in NewtonScript, a prototype-based > language. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~schoedl/projects/NewtonScript/ seems > like a nice overview. NewtonScript was an excellent language; with prototype-based inheritance, you could get

Re: So, we need a code name...

2001-05-07 Thread Joe McMahon
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > "durian". Aw, nuts. You beat me to it. Do we really think the externals will be spiky and the internals smelly but delicious? --- Joe M.

Re: Ideas that need RFCs?

2000-08-23 Thread Joe McMahon
> I was wondering this morning whether we ought to write the Perl 6 > parser as a set of recursive regexes. Might make it easier to plug in > new productions on the fly. And designing the parser around regexes > might indicate ways in which Perl's regexes are not yet powerful > enough. > There'