"David L. Nicol" wrote:
> > =head1 TITLE
> >
> > Default methods for objects
>
> Title does not match description. How about
>
> Overloadable bracketing
>
> or
>
> Brackets as Methods
>
> or
>
> Syntax as Overloadable Methods
Good point! Will be part of v2.
Christian
Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> > Do we really need PDL objects in perl 6? How about we investigate building
> > compact arrays into the language? We're already talking about how we can add
> > typing to the language--I would have thought that if these semantics make it
> > in, we could look to optimise ho
Jeremy Howard wrote:
> Make sure you read the interesting RFCs from Damian Conway on related
> issues:
>
> > * Built-ins: min() and max() functions and acceptors
> >
> > * Built-ins: reduce() function
Couldn't see these.
> >
> > * Data structures: Semi-finite (lazy) lists
> >
> > * Subroutines
I'd thought I try to summarize what has come up so far and see if we can
find somebody who can write some RFCs.
1) the XS replacement should provide for a way to publish (C-level) APIs
across modules. That would get around the hacks that Tk, PDL, OpenGL,
etc have to go through at the moment. Good
