[e-lang] Quick comments needed on tgc draft

[Mark Miller]

David Hopwood wrote:
>>> Terminology issue: do we count systems with multicast or other
>>> multiple-target messaging primitives as message-passing systems, or
>>> is single-target implied unless otherwise specified?
>>
>> I would count them as message passing. Joule's Channels are multicast, 
>> and I'd certainly count Joule as a message passing system. But I doubt 
>> this distinction is relevant within the scope of this paper.
> 
> OK, then add a footnote "We only consider messages sent to a single object,
> although some message passing systems support multicast messages."

Is there some potential point of confusion you're worried about here? (If 
there is, I'm happy to include the footnote.)


> I've added macros to the LaTeX document (attached) so that the styles can
> be easily changed:
> [...]
> I've also changed the code samples to use the alltt environment instead
> of verbatim, to allow styles to be used for method and variable
> declarations.

Wow, that was a lot! Thanks!

I've already made a few changes. As I learn more, I'll probably make some 
other changes. When you define a macro such as

\newcommand{\pr}[1]{{#1}}                      % principals

What significance do the double-curlies have? Is this different than 
single-curlies?


Fortunately, since I spent the day futzing around (badly and stupidly) with 
bibtex, our changes were easy to integrate. The integrated doc can be found at 
the old URL

https://www.cypherpunks.to/erights/talks/promises/tgc05.tex
https://www.cypherpunks.to/erights/talks/promises/tgc05.pdf

I've also posted

https://www.cypherpunks.to/erights/talks/promises/stackvat.svg
https://www.cypherpunks.to/erights/talks/promises/stackvat.eps
https://www.cypherpunks.to/erights/talks/promises/common.bib

The stackvat files are David's variation on Ping's drawing. For the common.bib 
file, I started from a file I got from Matej, got rid of much of the stuff I 
don't expect to cite, and did various web searches to find bibtex entries for 
the stuff I want to cite. However, a lot of these are wrong, and I haven't 
fixed them yet. Where do people generally go to find correct bibtex data?

-- 
Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

     Cheers,
     --MarkM