Re: mmd-draft.txt, why coercions

2006-11-03 Thread TSa
HaloO, I wrote: This depends on the partial order of parameter types of the candidates. Note that this order is rooted at the actual argument type. I don't know if the following is obvious but I want to rant about it ;) This partial order of the parameter types is in the case of a readonly par

Re: mmd-draft.txt, why coercions

2006-11-02 Thread TSa
HaloO, I have one further question to the document. It mentions chains of type coercions that are applied in the compatibility stage. A type that has fewer conversion steps is considered more specific. But is that a wise thing to do in an MMD system? I would expect no coercions to occur. How can

Re: mmd-draft.txt

2006-11-02 Thread TSa
HaloO, Audrey Tang wrote: > A variant's score cards only records two Boolean values for each > variant: "voting" and "qualified". Here is a summary of the explanation Audrey gave me on #perl6. Note that this is from memory because I didn't save the log. In particular I don't remember exactly whe

Re: mmd-draft.txt

2006-11-01 Thread Audrey Tang
在 Oct 26, 2006 10:26 AM 時,TSa 寫到: I figure that http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/notes/multi_method_dispatch/ mmd-draft.txt hasn't made it into S06 yet. So what is the current state of affairs? The original plan was to have Larry review it in Brazil and check it in along with an implem