Re: Module/Class Authoritys

2006-08-10 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:25:24PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > At 12:35 AM -0400 8/11/06, Stevan Little wrote: > >Quick question for the group. > > > >Can there be more than one authority? > > > >module Foo-0.0.1-cpan:JRANDOM-http://www.foo.org-mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >S11 would seem to in

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/10/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, it's a design smell. The point of core is to huffman code common things, so something in core with _ should normally either be shorter or out of the core. I don't think I agree. I've been programming in Ruby, and I appreciate all the nice

Re: Module/Class Authoritys

2006-08-10 Thread Darren Duncan
At 12:35 AM -0400 8/11/06, Stevan Little wrote: Quick question for the group. Can there be more than one authority? module Foo-0.0.1-cpan:JRANDOM-http://www.foo.org-mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S11 would seem to indicate no (it states that names are made up of 3 parts), but I guess I am wondering

Module/Class Authoritys

2006-08-10 Thread Stevan Little
Quick question for the group. Can there be more than one authority? module Foo-0.0.1-cpan:JRANDOM-http://www.foo.org-mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S11 would seem to indicate no (it states that names are made up of 3 parts), but I guess I am wondering if one of those parts can have multiple sub-parts

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:17:59PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:21:31PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: : > At 5:11 PM -0700 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > >Log: : > >First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. : > : > Congradulations! That is SUCH a great

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10807 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 10 20:19:02 2006 New Revision: 10807 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Removed last vestige of $?SELF from the spec. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/desig

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:21:31PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > At 5:11 PM -0700 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Log: > >First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. > > Congradulations! That is SUCH a great idea. I agree! No more caller() tricks to see if we're being required or not b

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10805 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 19:18:48 2006 New Revision: 10805 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * Two small typo fix: "value-bases comparison" -> "value-based comparison" "Storeable" -> "Storable" Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod =

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Darren Duncan
At 5:11 PM -0700 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. Congradulations! That is SUCH a great idea. Since Perl didn't have the concept of an explicit 'main' before like many other languages, I had been doing this for a long while in my non-tin

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 10 17:11:54 2006 New Revision: 10804 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. Typo from Aaron Crane++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ===

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:02:13PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Eric skribis 2006-08-10 10:22 (-0600): : > I think .valid is an excellent argument for underscores all by itself. : : I think it's an argument for reconsidering the name of that method. : "valueid" is only 2 characters more. Okay, I'll just

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Juerd
Eric skribis 2006-08-10 10:22 (-0600): > I think .valid is an excellent argument for underscores all by itself. I think it's an argument for reconsidering the name of that method. "valueid" is only 2 characters more. I'm personally against non-prefix underscores in any core identifier. I agree t

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10783 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 09:40:48 2006 New Revision: 10783 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S03: Signature ~~ Signature now tests for compatibility, i.e. whether if anything that can bind to LHS can also bind to RHS. * S06: The "want" f

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10782 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 09:35:52 2006 New Revision: 10782 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: * S04: Clarify that the following forms are hash composers: $h = {}; $h = {%h}; * Also change the archaic $coderef etc in examples to simply $code. Modified: doc/trunk/d

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Eric
I think .valid is an excellent argument for underscores all by itself. Unless you already know what it means you don't have any clue that its not actualy the word valid instead of val_id. I don't know of any other problems like this, but at very least that should be changed. Don't we still try an

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10780 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 09:16:15 2006 New Revision: 10780 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * S02: Add a infix_prefix_meta_operator grammatical category to carry the generic chain-associative negation modifier "!". Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ==

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10758 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Aaron Crane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod > +Some object types can behave as value types. Every object can produce > +a "safe key identifier" (C for short) that uniquely identifies the > +object for hashing and other value-base comparisons. Normal objects Is that meant t