James Clark

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1. No, because fields have per-object storage. You cannot have two storage slots with the same name. If you want to merge the slots, then say so. 2. It should...

There's another problem with that section in what "different function signature" means for a method-decls: it's not just "different type" because defaults and named arguments need to be considered. We...

## General category Regexps allowing testing the Unicode general category of a property using `\p`; so we should make this information available via function calls. [Go](https://pkg.go.dev/unicode#pkg-functions) has a tasteful design...

I think this [comment](https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-spec/issues/697#issuecomment-764202922) and following comments outline a way (adding a prefetch method) to handle this.

@ThisaruGuruge I agree the case you mentioned is different and cannot be solved just by the `prefetch` idea. I guess you would need to do something similar to the JavaScript:...

@MohamedSabthar Please send invites via email not issues (I don't think I'm available then).

This is related to how `toString` works on `float`, since in both cases you are creating a base 10 representation of a base 2 float, which is #909.

This will also affect the definition of Cloneable.

I am going to call the current readonly semantics _true-readonly_ and the readonly semantics that allows isolated objects _effectively-readonly_. I think the right direction is to loosen `readonly` so that...