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mfollett I've added a section on single inheritance to the Perl 6 book, who do I send a pull request? 05:03
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mfollett Hey, I added a section on single inheritance. Who do I send a pull request to for them to look it over? Sorry for asking this question twice for those who have been on since midnight. 14:02
moritz_ mfollett: to the same account that holds the book repo 14:03
ie perl6
mfollett Ok, I started to do that and it had a whole list of people it was going to send the request to. I wanted to check to make sure I wasn't spamming a bunch of people. 14:04
moritz_ hm
you can also look at the list of authors
mfollett and by midnight I meant midnight GMT-5
moritz_ github accounts: moritz masak perlpilot jnthn pmichaud 14:05
mfollett oops, I just sent it. In the future I will only send it to those 5. 14:06
moritz_: thanks for the info 14:07
moritz_ +to inherit from multiple classes. When a class inherits from another class it 14:16
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+acquires all of the attributes and methods of the base class.
that is not very precise
masak I'm reading the Camel book right now. only on chapter 1 so far, but it's really, really good.
I think we should strive for that kind of tone/prose.
moritz_ attributes are not inherited
only accessors are
and methods aren't really acquired either - it's rather that the dispatcher also considers the parent class 14:17
masak: agreed that Camel is great. Disagreed on striving for the same tone - at least for now. We should really get the book in a shape so that it can be printed. 14:18
masak agreed on that. though I maintain that the way to that print-ready state involves making the tone much more coherent and readable anyway. 14:19
I'm all for deadlines, but I'd rather hold the printing off a bit if it means significant improvement to the text. 14:20
moritz_ the problem is that we don't have deadlines
we had some, and missed them
and now there's no significant event to synchronize with
masak aye. that is a problem. 14:23
maybe we should declare one of the coming Star releases "the book release"? 14:24
with sufficient empirical reasons for the choice of the particular release.
moritz_ do we have sufficient empirical reasons? :-)
masak we could try to winnow some. and if those turn out to be wrong, we'll have better ones for next time. :) 14:26
mfollett moritz_: Alright, thanks for the review, I'll rewrite it to be more specific. 14:40
moritz_ mfollett: great
mfollett: if would also be nice if the child class added something to the parent class, so that there's a practical reason for inheritance
mfollett mortiz_: That's a good point, I will do that too. 14:42
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