Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-03-25 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RH" == Richard Hainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RH> No one likes bureacracy. But I feel much happier about handing over RH> money, or persuading someone else to hand over money, to a group of RH> people with established procedures and collective responsibility, than RH> to som

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-03-25 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Uri, Consider the position you put me, or another sponsor, in. You mention a specific person, someone who is highly respected and extremely talented. You ask if I consider this person to be as flaky as a character that was a figment of my imagination, and if I say 'no he is not so flaky', then

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-03-25 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 10:50:15 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > What the perl6 language needs now is a systematic development plan, with > broad aims and clear goals that will lead to good quality software and > to the tools to enable ordinary programmers to use perl6 for a variety > of tasks. Perl

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-03-25 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RH" == Richard Hainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RH> Consider the position you put me, or another sponsor, in. You mention RH> a specific person, someone who is highly respected and extremely RH> talented. You ask if I consider this person to be as flaky as a RH> character that

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-03-25 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 10:50:15 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > What the perl6 language needs now is a systematic development plan, with > broad aims and clear goals that will lead to good quality software and > to the tools to enable ordinary programmers to use perl6 for a variety > of tasks. Rich

Re: Musings on operator overloading

2008-03-25 Thread TSa
HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: Another minor psychological factor is comes into play is that, besides being "too hard to type", รท is visually a symmetrical operator, while division is inherently an asymmetric operation. You'll notice that other asymmetric operators invented by mathematicians tend to

Re: Musings on operator overloading

2008-03-25 Thread TSa
HaloO, Doug McNutt wrote: Don't allow it to become = f(-$x); ## wrong! Unless of course f does Linear, then you can factor out or in the multiplication with -1 at will. So linearity of operators and functions is a very interesting property for optimizers. Regards, TSa. -- The Angel of Ge