[Grace-core] Minutes of Teleconference 2-3.07.2014

[James Noble]

*** Next meeting - mon US / tue NZ next week ***

* spec - mon/tue next week 

* stuff for testers
 - we have 11-12 book chapters
 - our testers shouldn't look at solutions
 - need to find out **what mistakes they make**
 - Kim would like people particularly pay attention to error messages - at least avoid unhelpful messages.
 - discovered issues go into the issue tracker

* for testers but important for everyone
 - need to build tests out of bugs, and keep those tests somewhere for regression
    *tim & pauline to think about process* 

* james to move spec to github. soonish.  
    language design issues could them move to that repos issue tracker

- class syntax 
      -> keep the dot for the book/test right now
- naming conventions:   point -class   Point -Type    aPoint -instance   AGREED!! WOW!! WE AGREED ON SOMETHING!!
    Michael has kindly volunteered to sort this, will coördiante changes with Kim over email
    Michael has volunteered
- collection class / type names
    talked about it; need to talk about it more. 
     -> keep andrew's names for the book/test right now: list, dictionary, set, range. 
- equality - * ==  /egal / hash(code) :: protocol for all objects 
      -> James try to write smth for the spec on that basic
- objectdraw vs nobjectdraw -  AGREED!! WOW!! WE AGREED ON SOMETHING!!
- can andrew document his dependencies? -  AGREED!! WOW!! WE AGREED ON SOMETHING!!
      -> yes...  
- can we document Andrew's APIs? -  AGREED!! WOW!! WE AGREED ON SOMETHING!!
- move for loop, andrew's collections into std prelude -  AGREED!! WOW!! WE AGREED ON SOMETHING!!

stuff we didn't talk about before I left
- ranges .. .. 
- varargs  / splat? 
- generics character?  [[ ]]