Re: mmd-draft.txt, why coercions

2006-11-03 Thread TSa
four chains of subtypes A to G, A to H via E and F, and A to I. Within these chains the methods are comparable for specificity. I don't know if this is what is meant by "type compatibility path" in mmd-draft.txt. For writeonly parameters the partial order extends in the other directi

Re: mmd-draft.txt, why coercions

2006-11-02 Thread TSa
HaloO, I have one further question to the document. It mentions chains of type coercions that are applied in the compatibility stage. A type that has fewer conversion steps is considered more specific. But is that a wise thing to do in an MMD system? I would expect no coercions to occur. How can

Re: mmd-draft.txt

2006-11-02 Thread TSa
HaloO, Audrey Tang wrote: > A variant's score cards only records two Boolean values for each > variant: "voting" and "qualified". Here is a summary of the explanation Audrey gave me on #perl6. Note that this is from memory because I didn't save the log. In particular I don't remember exactly whe

Re: mmd-draft.txt

2006-11-01 Thread Audrey Tang
在 Oct 26, 2006 10:26 AM 時,TSa 寫到: I figure that http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/notes/multi_method_dispatch/ mmd-draft.txt hasn't made it into S06 yet. So what is the current state of affairs? The original plan was to have Larry review it in Brazil and check it in along wi

mmd-draft.txt

2006-10-26 Thread TSa
HaloO, I figure that http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/notes/multi_method_dispatch/mmd-draft.txt hasn't made it into S06 yet. So what is the current state of affairs? Could someone explain me the voting mechanism mentioned in the document? I get that it works from left to right and com