Re: Exceptuations

2005-09-27 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Nigel Hamilton schreef: > From the point of view of the operating system a program is a nasty > exception to its normal running environment - your whole program is a > kind of big exception! As if a real OS really likes to run idle most of the time. ;) > Like someone intruding on a conversation

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-27 Thread Piers Cawley
TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HaloO, > > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: >> Meanwhile, in perl6-language >> "\(...)" >> Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. >> How unusual. > > Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Nah, it's j

Re: Exceptuations

2005-09-27 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:29:48 +0100, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > >And handling user errors in a GUI application is a task for event handling, > >*not* exception handling. I agree that both mechanisms share large parts > >of the infra-structure supporting them. But I make a strong conceptual > >dist

Re: Exceptuations

2005-09-27 Thread Nigel Hamilton
And handling user errors in a GUI application is a task for event handling, *not* exception handling. I agree that both mechanisms share large parts of the infra-structure supporting them. But I make a strong conceptual distinction between them. Which leads to the question, does Perl6 have or n

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-27 Thread Juerd
TSa skribis 2005-09-27 10:15 (+0200): > Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Just like how a post being Warnocked can have one or more of several causes, a long running thread can. Some are bad, some are good. As a thread becomes longer and more fanned out, it becomes h

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-27 Thread TSa
HaloO, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Meanwhile, in perl6-language "\(...)" Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. How unusual. Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? I have grasped so far, that spawning a new thread after some d

Re: matching colors (was Stringification, numification, and booleanification of pairs)

2005-09-27 Thread TSa
HaloO Yuval, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 21:02:06 +0200, TSa wrote: demonstrates the lack of transitivity in matching... Sorry, but don't you mean commutativity? Transitivity of relations requires applying it twice to three values and then concluding it applies to the unchecked combi