On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:16:33AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > I'd actually like to see some work on the shared memory and IPC stuff on > the language list--it'd be nice to have them in as mostly-primitives, > though in a more platform-neutral way. "mostly-primitives" sounds like a fudge. Like the hacks used to get 'lock' into the perl5. perl6 shouldn't need 'mostly-primitives'. > From a language perspective, I have a scheme to allow us to yank all the > cruft (sockets, shm, messages, localtime...) out into separate libraries, > yet pull them in on demand without needing a use. Why worry about a use? Larry is thinking long and hard about 'interface definition' issues. Specificaly in relation to enabling multiple versions of a module to co-exist and, importantly, enabling multiple alternate implementations of the same interface. Let's wait and see where that goes first. Tim.
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