[Grace-core] Mintues from Meeting 2-3.07.2012

[Andrew P. Black]

Wasn't it our deliberate goal to disallow testing for equality of done?  As Michael points out, this can always be achieved using reflection, but I thought that we deliberately didn't want to allow testing of Equality to stop done being used as nil. 

Andrew

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On Jul 8, 2012, at 18:50, Michael Homer <mwh at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2012 8:27 PM, "James Noble" <kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Andrew typed up the notes below from our meeting on Monday & Tuesday this week.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We're pretty sure about the proposals for modules, annotations, default inheritance, and most of information hiding.
>> 
>> James now thinks the details of the information hiding as regards variables are somewhat - unspecified - but it's more than a start.
>> 
>> we're very interested in feedback on all these proposals;
>> we hope to consolidate them into the spec relatively quickly,
>> and (assuming they hold up) then move the into the implementation.
> Some way of detecting that you have the singleton "done" would be
> useful, since there's no equality on it. "!Object.match(x)") would do
> at a pinch but a better way would be nice.
> -Michael
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