Greetings, Here is a revision of Mike's draft, with material on arrays. The changes are all additions to section 12 and 17, basic arrays and advanced topics. The text was taken from the document I circulated circa May 31, divided into the two sections, and edited to try to capture the feedback from the discussion. The examples are still incomplete, they need to conform to the rest of the document. Since we may choose to cut a lot of this, I thought it better to provide an incomplete draft than to struggle with all the details On Friday 23 June 2006 17:52, Mike Beckerle wrote:

I am sending this to the mailing list, not posting it at gridforge, because this is too drafty to want to even post there.

I put a number of things together - intro material from a 'primer' from way back, scoping, context, conversions, extensions.

I split the scoping stuff into syntax and scoping.

I did not go through the content on context, conversions, and extensions and make it consistent with the scoping and syntax stuff yet.

I didn't put anything in on arrays yet.

I didn't put the big list of properties in yet

I didn't put in the discussion of wildcards/any/opaque

I didn't put in the discussion of optiona/nullable/default-values, etc.

I didn't put in discussion of layering.

I didn't put in any discussion of selectors/guards.

However, such as it is, it is "all" here:

-- --- Robert E. McGrath, Ph.D. National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1205 West Clark Urbana, Illinois 61801 (217)-333-6549 mcgrath@ncsa.uiuc.edu