HaloO Mr Castagna
On Friday, 5. February 2010 16:43:26 you wrote:
> I see I'm going out of the scope of this list. I apologize for spamming,
> but please continue to post here or send me by PM every information about
> Perls 6 types.
I'm delighted to have you interested in Perl 6. I know your book and
articles and have argued for a type system of Perl 6 here on the list
for quite a while. Unfortunately I'm not able to implement one for
Parrot or so. But if you are willing to port the CDuce code this is
a great thing!
There is no formally defined subtype relation or rules for subsumption.
A type is called narrower without details what that means. And the
odering in dispatch is not a type lattice as in Cecil but a topological
ordering. Again I've no clue what that means. It is possible for one
role to do another as in
role A does B {...}
and all objects that do A are also B doers. So one could infer that we
have A <: B. But note that this subtype relation is not enforced in the
body of the role or in the class it is composed into. The spec says nothing
about class inheritance and type narrowness. Parametric roles are covariant
on their type parameter irrespective of its use. E.g. you can declare a
read/write attribute of that type.
Regards TSa.
--
"The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity" -- C.A.R. Hoare
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- A.J. Perlis
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