Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Allison Randal
Bob Rogers wrote: Allison Randal wrote: +Monkeypatching is certainly possible, but not encouraged. Cool; a new term in Allison-speak! ;-} As much as linguists love creating new words, I can't claim credit for this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch More later, Allison

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:31:18 +0200 Bob Rogers wrote: Allison Randal wrote: +Monkeypatching is certainly possible, but not encouraged. Cool; a new term in Allison-speak! ;-} As much as linguists love creating new

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Allison Randal
Bob Rogers wrote: +{{ There seems to be an implied basic assumption here that language +interoperability is the responsibility of the language +implementor. It is not. We cannot require that language +implementors design and implement their languages according to some +global

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:15:18 +0200 Thank you for responding so promptly; I doubt I will be able to return fire on your schedule. Bob Rogers wrote: As a case in point, consider keyword (named) parameters in Lisp. Kea-CL does not use

[svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-08-31 Thread Bob Rogers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Author: allison Date: Thu Aug 28 12:43:19 2008 New Revision: 30622 I've not responded to all your comments, just some of the key ones that I hope will promote understanding. I won't commit any changes until after

[svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-08-28 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Thu Aug 28 12:43:19 2008 New Revision: 30622 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd31_hll_interop.pod Log: [pdd] Adding a series of architectural comments to the HLL Interop PDD. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd31_hll_interop.pod