[Grace-core] Minutes of Teleconference 20-21.6.12

[James Noble]

Updated on various projects
 * Smita getting errors on Java backend
 * Richard is doing Racket backend
 * Amy is converting Kim's Scala data structures to Grace
 * Michael is doing primitive arrays
 * Jan is doing type checking! 

Brief report on ECOOP tute
 * Jeremy Siek interested in helping with gradualism
 * Maria Jump interesting in teaching
 * James had ideas about next talks - splitting "basic" tutorial from "meta" content

* IRC channel? - Jan is worrying about it skype/ichat/IRC

* Arrays - we need arrays 

* Mirrors - Smita will imagine mirrors

* Modules 
 - Andrew's encapsulation paper?
 - Object-Capability model?

* Annotations / Encapsulation 
  - user defined and language level annotations should be treated the same
  - "confidential" == "not public" / "private" / "final" (no inheritance from classes) / "overrides" 
  - leading underscores?  for java private?
  - what's the underlying model? 
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Todo 
 - DONE: \Michael - arrays - PrimitiveArray.new(n) now implemented,  zero indexed,
       syntax a.at(i), a.at(i) put(v), a[i], a[i]:= v -- no types for now
 - Jan - IRC channel  name should be gracelang; twitter tag should be #gracelang
 - Bug database (github?) - vic persons
 - James to find stuff on modules an and send it out
 - James to find stuff on annotations and send it out
 - Andrew to mail Onward current draft to grace-interest
 - James to blog about it

* Onward! paper 
 - due 5 August
 - Kim's away from the 1st 		

Next meeting - 
 - tentatively 13:30 pacific, 16:30 florida (8:30 NZ)