Meeting #2

[danvim]

Topics to be discussed in the next meeting

• 5 Modes and States

• Reevaluation of the Procal language
• Licensing
• calc package
• user-defined function (myFunc($A), isInt($A))
• Arrays

Feel free to edit this post to plan agenda

[mcreng]

Suggestion on revaluation of the Procal language

Aim: Coherence and readablity

Syntax

Assignment

• in $A:: Requires user input for variable $A
• 2->$A:: Assign 2 to $A

  Conditions

• If ... Then ... EndIf:: If

  Loops

• While ... Do ... EndWhile:: While
• For ... To ... Do ... EndFor:: For with step 1
• For ... To ... Step ... Do ... EndFor:: For with arbitrary step

  Display

• out $A:: Outputs $A

[danvim]

Minutes

• Modes and States. Keep syntax propose.
• Reevaluation of Procal language. Keep old and new syntaxes for most cases.
• Array implementation and Function reevaluation as well as definition of in and out. Suggestion of adding return, but was not used.
• Math library to replace RJM's BigDecimalMath
• Abandon container approach of packaging both approximation decimal and exact fraction into one class instance. Turned to use interface solution.

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Packages to be completed

• calc package
  • BigDecimalMath
• nodes
• api

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This meeting issue should be opened until after next meeting is conducted.