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Comment on IPL — The “when” Construct by ren

ren — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:28:37 +0000

You know what else you should write about? The automatic sub-classing we talked about years ago. That would be useful in IPL (and in general).

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shaun — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:11:58 +0000

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Comment on IPL — The “when” Construct by wall

wall — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:30:05 +0000

“after” would be cool too, especially if it can be modified by a duration — “3 seconds after player.shoot { alert = true; }”. “after” would violate moment safety, but that could be what you want sometimes.

If you have time, feel free to write up an IPL proposal for “after” :]. If you don’t feel up to it, then mind if I do? I’ll credit you. I’m thinking the differences are that “after” creates a new moment whereas “when” modifies an existing moment, and “after” could be parameterized with a duration.

Comment on IPL — The “when” Construct by skrath

skrath — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:43:40 +0000

I think in this specific context an “after” keyword might make more sense than “when”. I’m sure you can figure out the minor differences of after vs. when.

Comment on IPL — Moments by IPL — The “when” Construct « lifesnotsimple.com

IPL — The “when” Construct « lifesnotsimple.com — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:51:12 +0000

[...] the last installment of IPL, I talked about moments. To recap: a moment is a unit of time during which all instructions [...]

Comment on IPL — Moments by ren

ren — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:03:54 +0000

Interesting idea. I think you should look at languages with lazy evaluation, specifically Haskell, as it behaves in a way similar to what you describe. That is to say, the order of operations does not matter as much, because things are not computed until needed, which lets us write code in an order that doesn’t necessarily reflect the order it gets processed. It’s not exactly the same as what you are proposing here, but I think you may find inspiration there to build on your idea here.

Comment on IPL — Moments by skrath

skrath — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:53:37 +0000

In many respects, you’ve described a principle aspect of make files

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