Re: Have you tried using the accelerator?

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 11:33  PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Maybe it's time to pick this list up again.
>
> It seems the last thing that happened is that Mike started the
> Arrays/Hashes section.  That was two months ago.  What's the next
> thing up?

Sorry 'bout that... I've got a halfway section on arrays and hashes 
written, and been adapting much of what I've previously written to tie 
together the scalar stuff, but got completely stuck on overall 
structure until the type-related stuff of A6 came out -- so much 
depends on how the guts of the type system works.  I'm still digesting 
A6, but it should provide (along w/ the recent p6l discussions) enough 
to finish & post.

We should definitely start up again, tho.

> Chapter 2 of the camel seems to think that typeglobs^Wfilehandles come
> next.  IIRC, we haven't covered context very well... especially since
> A6 came out.

Yep, IMO one of the next things we need is a full type tree, and a full 
context "tree".  And if we got that, we could do operators pretty 
quickly and easily.

I don't know if Larry has significant plans for filehandles or not, IIR 
the A&Es aren't very specific as to whether there will be any (more) 
major changes in them.

A note -- we have a new contract here that has been requiring a lot of 
my attention, so my big written contributions will be delayed a bit.  
(Yes, still...)  But I'll be working on completing the arrays section, 
and the hash section, and the tie-it-together parts for A2 that I've 
been working on, but it'll be at least until the end of the month, if 
not later.  As many of you no doubt have noticed, I tend to write 
*lots* at a time, so the chunks I post here will be... um... rather 
large.  :-)

MikeL