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HaloO,
Luke Palmer wrote:
> On 10/1/05, David Storrs <dstorrs@dstorrs.com> wrote:
>
>>All in all, I think that might just be the end of the tunnel up
>>ahead. Go us for getting here, and loud applause to @Larry for
>>guiding us so well!
>
>
> Applause for p6l for hashing out the issues that we didn't think of.
I think this is a good opportunity for me to drop out of the list.
Not that I expect anyone to care. Consider this just me talking
to myself in public. But since I'm not *doing* anything on Perl6,
why should I bother you with ranting about it.
I've always taken the 'what type of expression' approach to programming
languages and thus have an affinity to type systems and type theory.
With 'type' in general and 'data type' in particular beeing too misleading
or used in too many different meanings in other programming languages I
propose to coin the notion of 'kind' which has the nice double meaning of
nice and sort. And as such gives the nice pun
Perl 6, the kind language
with the two "meanings"
Perl 6, a kind of language
, the language of kind(ness)
Here are attempts to translate this to German
Perl 6, die artige Sprache
, eine Art Sprache
, eine Art-Sprache
, eine Artsprache
, die Sprache der Art
Well, take it or leave it.
> I recently wrote a "Perl 6 design TODO", which was surprizingly small,
> which enumerated the things to be done before I considered the design
> of Perl 6 to be finished. Larry replied with a couple more items.
The type system is not on this list, right?
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$TSa.greeting := "HaloO"; # mind the echo!
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