Re: tasty db data

2001-06-13 Thread David L. Nicol
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 04:39 PM 6/12/2001 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > > > >I appear to be suggesting that deferability be an add-on that causes some > >rewriting to support itself, rather than an optimization to parse away > >bothering with silly calculations that we will never see the re

Re: tasty db data

2001-06-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:39 PM 6/12/2001 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > David L. Nicol [made an akward metaphor with data as summer campers] > > This is a considerably less simple problem than you (and *definitely* I) > > might like. :( > >I appear to be suggesting that deferability be an

tasty db data

2001-06-12 Thread David L. Nicol
Since I just proposed a new paradigm I'll try to apply it, before darting down the hill and getting my sandwich. Dan Sugalski wrote: > > David L. Nicol [made an akward metaphor with data as summer campers] > That's less easy than you might think. Quick: > >$bar = bar(); > > is $bar acti