Re: The new DTS language enhancements

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:45:16PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Grant Likely wrote:

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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Kumar Gala [off-list ref] 
wrote:

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I appreciate that you're frustrated with the lack of alternate
proposals, but there hasn't been enough time yet.

I understand the short window, but if there isn't useful feedback what  
is one to do?  Just saying I don't like your solution and leaving at  
this isn't productive.  I'm all for getting this done right, but we need 
constructive feedback.

There are clearly some high level differences of opinions.  The only way 
I see of addressing those is by who is putting up code to address the 
problem versus not.. Jon's proposed a solution.. if no one else is (I 
know David's mentioned he's working on something) than it seems that wins 
by defacto.

I think David should be more transparent on what's he doing/thinking so 
we all can discuss it rather than us not knowing if/when he might  
produce something (and I've respond in such to him).

You're absolutely right.  I've been meaning to make some proposals
about where I think this should go, but it's been on the back-burner
while I've been working on other things.  Although, the one bit I did
post - the integer expressions support - was met with deafening
silence, which is a bit frustrating.

It's late here in .au and my brain's turning to mush, but first thing
tomorrow, I'll send out a brain dump of my thoughts on expression /
macro / whatever support.  Promise! It's not a complete proposed
syntax - which is one of the reasons I haven't posted already - just
thoughts, fragments, rationales and such.

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