Re: Dylan stuff

Dustin Voss <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
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On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:17 PM, mikel evins <[email protected]> wrote:

> That raises another question: to what degree should Dylan hackers regard the language design as malleable? To whom does its definition belong nowadays? Is there a "Dylan Request for Implementation" process? Should there be?

We have a process, documented at http://opendylan.org/proposals/index.html. And no one BUT us uses it, so we could consider it pretty malleable.

However, I don’t like changing much in the language. It is pretty well-designed, and I don’t think we could do a better job of considering implications than the original designers.

There are flaws. For example, <character> and its methods are poorly done, and limited collection types should include default fill: values and more introspection. But the fundamentals are sane, sound, and consistent.
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