Re: Funding the design team

2003-03-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "David" == David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Such a fund would be the ideal but, until it is set up, there is a David> very easy way to fund the design team: David> Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can David> send checks. The checks won't be t

Re: prototype (was continuations and regexes)

2003-03-20 Thread Matthijs van Duin
Oops, I just noticed Sean had mailed Dan and me privately, not on the list.. sorry for sending the reply here :-) -- Matthijs van Duin -- May the Forth be with you!

Re: prototype (was continuations and regexes)

2003-03-20 Thread Matthijs van Duin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:38:31AM -0800, Sean O'Rourke wrote: Here's what I take to be a (scheme) prototype of Matthijs' "success continuations" approach. It actually works mostly by passing closures and a state object, ... Matthijs -- is this what you're describing? It sounds like approach #2 ("

Re: Rules and hypotheticals: continuations versus callbacks

2003-03-20 Thread Matthijs van Duin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:49:28AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: --- Matthijs van Duin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you seem to have a much complexer model of hypotheses than what's in my head. The complex model is right -- in other words, if hypotheses are to be a first-class part of the language t

Re: Rules and hypotheticals: continuations versus callbacks

2003-03-20 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Matthijs van Duin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:46:50PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >>They should be though, if a variable was hypothesized when the > >>continuation was taken, then it should be hypothesized when that > >>continuation is invoked. > > > >Should t

Re: Funding the design team

2003-03-20 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Storrs wrote: > Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can > send checks. The checks won't be tax deductible, but are we really > doing this for the tax deduction? ... or a PayPal account. I've got $1.36 in my account ready to send to the de

Funding the design team

2003-03-20 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:32:39PM -0500, James Mastros wrote: > On 03/14/2003 3:22 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > That means that TPF's "perl development grant" fund is fine to donate > > to, and if there's only enough cash for one grantee, and Larry's the > > best candidate, that's keen. Setting u

Re: Rules and hypotheticals: continuations versus callbacks

2003-03-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:00 AM + 3/20/03, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthijs Van Duin) writes: OK, I suppose that works although that still means you're moving the complexity from the perl implementation to its usage: in this case, the perl 6 parser which is written in perl 6 No, I don't believe t