It will always be too early, and too late. There will always be
reasons not to do it till next year, and reasons you're hosed because
it wasn't done years ago. Now is all we've got at the moment...
Larry
That's how C++ was. The call to ANSI was hot on the heels of a
statement saying i
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote:
Just so you don't think this is warnocked, I'm looking at it, and
thinking about it.
Thanks. I thought perhaps everyone filtered it out since it had a bad
subject line.
By and large it seems to be going the right
direction, though I've naturall
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:11:05PM -0700, jerry gay wrote:
: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > On a larger question, I'm wondering if it's time to slush/freeze
: > the Synopses as historical documents and put all spec effort into
: > the new form (presum
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a larger question, I'm wondering if it's time to slush/freeze
> the Synopses as historical documents and put all spec effort into
> the new form (presumably as a wiki that knows how to serialize into
> a document). I
Just so you don't think this is warnocked, I'm looking at it, and
thinking about it. By and large it seems to be going the right
direction, though I've naturally got a number of quibbles.
Probably each quibble needs to be a separate thread though, since
many of them will probably breed discussion.
I've been working hard on re-organizing the S\d\d docs and other lore into a
technical
specification with an outline suitable for the contents.
But lately I've done some "original work" on what strong typing means and the
detailed
semantics of having types.
So, please take a look at section 10
