[Grace-core] Minutes of Teleconference 26-27.12.2014

[James Noble]

Plans:

* Andrew's plans:
  - teaching with Grace both Spring & Summer
  - Spring:  Object Oriented Programming,  Grads & Seniors (NZ "400 level") 
       last week of March, 10 weeks til mid June
  - Summer:  "New Beginnings" conversion programme,  first year programme is being run  
       smart, motivated students  starts beginning of July, 10 weeks, end mid Sept 
 - working with Tim Sheard on Haskell parser combinator parser

* James's plans
 - work his way back in this week
 - thinking about inheritance, potential essay
 - thinking / talking about organisation / process stuff

* Michael's plans
 - writing a proper parser
 - thinking about inheritance in particular
 - thinking about spec in general

* Tim's plans 
 - working on type-related stuff, implementing in Hopper



* General Stuff:
  
* 2015 discussions on Grace wiki
 - testing dialect
 - Grace vs Java comparison
 - strings - https://projects.cecs.pdx.edu:8443/~black/NewOOL/index.cgi/wiki/WhatAreStrings 
     - people should look at this wiki page, partly as a way to see if we can use that for this kind of thing

* Discussed Michael's inheritance table - http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~mwh/inheritance/

* Google Summer of Code 2015 - https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
  **DUE** - Feb 9 -   *Michael to look at...

* Sorting out what the AST should do! 

* Process question: how to work through spec revision
 - inheritance is the big one
 - what do receiverless requests mean?
 - pattern system
 - need to settle on an AST
 - strings - "what is a string";  escapes; equality; length;  

* should we fly to the west coast sometime?