[Grace-core] Minutes of Teleconference 7-8.08.2014

[James Noble]

Language design stuff:

OUTER:
* outer to become syntactically & semantically parallel to super
* only permissable before the dot
* doesn't return an object
* says resolve lexically

* if you want to resolve any ambiguities between outer & super
   you need to do that in the outer scope where they actually arise
   you can't do it by something like of outer.outer.foo

DIALECT EXTENSIONS
* need some kind of traits / multiple inheritance

CLASS SYNTAX
* keeping dots in class names at least until the end of Kim's class

ANGLE BRACKETS VS SQUARE BRACKETS
* thinking a bit  - basically want to move away from angle brackets for generics
* but aren't sure where to go. yet.
* Michael suggests requiring whitespace around all operators
* James wonders about requiring whitespace around "<" and ">" as operators (and not as generics) 


&next meeting:   (mon us, tues nz),   (thur us, fri nz)   10am NZ, 3pm US

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