On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
Of course, there are other words that are somewhat synonymous with
"class", Unfortunately "sort" is already hosed. Maybe "kind".
Actually "kind" is used in the "Core Calculus for Metaclasses" paper
which I brought to the hackathon (not sure if you got to read it or
not). Here is a link:
http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/core-calculus.pdf
They present an rather interesting view on things, that the
definition of the instance creating portion of a "class" should be
seperated from the "class" or "kind" portion of the class. Actually
the first metamodel prototype grew out of an implementation of the
model they describe in the paper.
Stevan
