Re: Initial notes

On 9 Nov 2002 at 18:56, Andrew Wilson wrote:

> Starting small sounds like a good idea.  I'm not so sure about trying to
> "lock things down" before moving on.  I don't think that will be
> possible in any meaningful way.  The problem with trying to lock things
> down is that the design team are refining the design as they go.  If
> something isn't working they change it.
> 
> I will be happy to be proved wrong about this but I have a feeling that
> too much attention to detail will get us bogged down.

I also think that we shouldn't try to provide too exact and final 
documentation at once. Just define each area "with enough detail" 
(whatever that means) and then move on. Until whole language-design 
is somewhat complete, there will be things which requires earlier 
decisions to be changed.

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Markus Laire 'malaire' <[email protected]>