[Grace-core] Minutes of Teleconference 2011.10.23-24

[James Noble]

This telecon carried on from where we left off last week - 

 * I've typeset the version of _last weeks'_ discussion and attached it below.

  - I'm not sure much new content was added this week, other than a consideration
    of distinguishing "dynamically bound methods" from "lexically bound functions"
   at either or both of definition and  use 

  - and reconsidering if we want the "ML/lisp" style complementarity
     where functions = variables + lambdas  (i.e where writing
      fun foo(a,b) = { body } 
     means the same as 
      var foo = { a, b -> body }

* talked a little about about private/public defaults
  (consider methods public, def/var private)

* talked again about underscore as a sigil for Java's "protected" 
    where methods beginning with "_" can only be requested on self. 

* require visibility of types to be as much or more visible than any methods
   with arguments and results of those types  (so a public method cannot return
   a private type, if indeed we have private types)

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Next meeting wed30 Nov 3pm Pacific, thurs 1 Dec noon NZ

James