Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-10-10 Thread Sam Tregar
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Tim Bunce wrote: A very complete UML tool in Java is ArgoUML: http://argouml.tigris.org/ Umm, it might be interesting for someone to add a Perl code generator for it... I've played with the idea of adding Perl code-generation to my design tools (Visio2000 and

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-10-05 Thread Philip Newton
On 2 Oct 2000, at 16:14, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 04:34 PM 9/29/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: I've no experience with UML, though. Got a pointer to a quick overview? Without a doubt, "UML Distilled" is the bible of the genre. I'll have to go pick that up on

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-10-05 Thread Philip Newton
On 5 Oct 2000, at 13:44, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 06:19 PM 10/5/00 +0200, Philip Newton wrote: On 2 Oct 2000, at 16:14, Dan Sugalski wrote: I'll have to go pick that up on Thursday and add it to the Darned Big Pile of books I need to read. Funny how everyone seems to have on of those.

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-10-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:34 PM 9/29/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: I've no experience with UML, though. Got a pointer to a quick overview? Without a doubt, "UML Distilled" is the bible of the genre. I'll have to go pick that up on Thursday and add it to the Darned Big Pile of books I need

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-10-02 Thread Johan Vromans
"Peter Buckingham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... but it may be simpler than just doing everything from scratch in xfig. Check Tgif (http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/). -- Johan

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-10-01 Thread 'John Porter'
Peter Buckingham wrote: but i did a quick check and there is a visio style program that is covered by the GPL Dia (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/) i have not used it, but it may be simpler than just doing everything from scratch in xfig. Thanks for the link, Peter. I have

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-09-29 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: I've no experience with UML, though. Got a pointer to a quick overview? Without a doubt, "UML Distilled" is the bible of the genre. I'll make a pitch, though, for O'Reilly's "UML in a Nutshell", which I have; it's a decent little tutorial and reference. UML is extremely

RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-09-28 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Bradley M. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Aug 2000 Last Modified: 28 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-09-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 07:38 PM 9/28/00 +, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: These APIs should be documented separately from the implementation, in a language-independent and an object-oriented way. Unfortunately the two conflict. C, APL, Fortran, and COBOL aren't particularly object-oriented... Not that I disagree

Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

2000-09-28 Thread John van V
a design expressed in UML could be implemented in a non-OO language. Interesting concept... "expressing" perl in UML would certainly add depth to the artistic license ;) I think, though, that the core interface should be procedural. I agree. We should not confuse OOD with OOP. As in