On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:44:02PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
You must not be following Perl 6 closely enough, then. Perl 6 is a
real programming language now, as opposed to a scripting language.
Um, I've followed Perl6 closely enough to know that the distinction
between real langauge and
Adam Turoff writes:
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:44:02PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
It will still have a lot of power in text processing, and still be a
powerful quicky language, but that's no longer its primary focus --
not to say that highly structured programming is. Some applications
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 06:10 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
So, in summary, its good to have a clean abstraction for all the
HCCCT things. But I think it is a mistake to push them too
close. Each of the HCCCT things might be implemented as facades over
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:34:14AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
And I don't see what's stopping someone from writing Dispatch::Value.
use Dispatch::Value;
sub foo($param is value('param1')) {...}
sub foo($param is value('param2')) {...}
What it seems you're wanting is it to be in
A better fitting solution wouldn't focus on classic
MMD, but simply Dispatch, where type- and value-based
dispatching are two of many kinds of dispatching supported.
I've always liked the sound of Linda's tuple spaces
and view that as a nice generalized dispatch approach.
Procedure calls are
Luke Palmer wrote:
I think it would fall trivially out of the events mechanism, which is
planned for Parrot.
I have heard rumours of such a thing, but no details of how it will be
exposed in the language...
Dave.
Piers Cawley wrote:
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030601
Another Monday, another Perl 6 Summary. Does this man never take a
holiday? (Yes, but only to go to Perl conferences this year, how did
that happen?)
We start with the internals list as usual.
More
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
All values needing timely destruction would inherit from a class
RefCounted.
I like this concept a lot, but maybe we can take it a little further and
make it transparent to the programmer. Suppose that the internals only
tracked objects that have a
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Threads and Progress Monitors
Dave Whipp had some more thread questions, and wondered what would be
a
good Perl 6ish way of implementing a threaded progress monitor. Whilst
the discussion of all this was interesting, I'm not sure that it's
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Threads and Progress Monitors
Dave Whipp had some more thread questions, and wondered what would be
a
good Perl 6ish way of implementing a threaded progress monitor. Whilst
the discussion of all this was interesting, I'm not sure that
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030601
Another Monday, another Perl 6 Summary. Does this man never take a
holiday? (Yes, but only to go to Perl conferences this year, how did
that happen?)
We start with the internals list as usual.
More on timely destruction
The
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