Re: S02: reserved namespace ops

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:26:49AM +0100, TSa wrote: : HaloO, : : Larry Wall wrote: : >Um, I always thought that "is reserved" in a spec means "we don't have : >the foggiest idea what we'll do with this, but we have a suspicion : >that if we let people use this particular thing right now, we'll :

Re: S02: reserved namespace ops

2006-02-23 Thread TSa
HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: Um, I always thought that "is reserved" in a spec means "we don't have the foggiest idea what we'll do with this, but we have a suspicion that if we let people use this particular thing right now, we'll regret it someday." OK, but how official is theory.pod? I mean is

Re: S02: reserved namespace ops

2006-02-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:00:08PM +0100, TSa wrote: : HaloO, : : S02 states "(Directly subscripting the type with either square brackets : or curlies is reserved for various generic type-theoretic operations. In : most other matters type names and package names are interchangeable.)" : : What

S02: reserved namespace ops

2006-02-21 Thread TSa
HaloO, S02 states "(Directly subscripting the type with either square brackets or curlies is reserved for various generic type-theoretic operations. In most other matters type names and package names are interchangeable.)" What are these type-theoretic operations? And what do directly attache