[Grace-core] Minutes of Teleconference 2013.07.31

[Kim Bruce]

Pretty much panic at the thought of adding anything in the last paragraph.  Everything else looks fine.

Kim



On Jul 30, 2013, at 5:35 PM, James Noble <kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

> * Andrew talked about building the compiler and/or pushing changes
>    he's working on getting g-unit up and running again
> 
> 
> * Indentation: talked about it.   
> 
>  **   I think we're keen on - indentation is based at the _start of the line_
>        not than the "actual column of the syntactic unit"
>        this also means that we only worry about the number of spaces
>        never the number of actual characters
> 
>  ** no construct that disables indentation conformance
> 
>  ** curlies on methods & classes - keep for now.      But consider revisiting.
> 
> * Talked about the question of blocks with not enough arguments:
>    repeat (number) times { block }  
>    for (iterable) do { each -> }
>    for (iterable) doWithIndex { each, index -> }
> 
> * Mentioned the issue of adding stuff to the standard library.
>    ** story we said so far:  family inheritance :-) 
>   - pragmatically, in minigrace, we need some way to be able to write Grace methods onto system classes...
>   - philosophically, we need a better answer than that
>        (which may require magic, multiple inheritance, or both...) 
> 
> * next meeting: same time, Tue 3pm US/Wed 10am NZ, Tue 2300 UK
> 
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