Steve. I am now reading the Tutorial as I see the build is mostly done in Io. Do you consider the SGML "problem" I noted a bug and what is the best way for me...
Guy Hulbert
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Jan 1, 2009 2:53 pm
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Hi, Guy, Jonas Eschenburg and I were the last maintainers of Debian packages and looks like both of us bumped into having no time to continue maintaining. ...
... Great. Thanks for this. I volunteered to help out with perl so I'll be setting up a debian build environment asap anyway. I'm not sure about anything...
Guy Hulbert
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Jan 1, 2009 4:02 pm
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... Iit would be nice if the SGML clib had packages for the popular platforms, but as it doesn't I don't know of a better way to make it easy for people to...
... This seems to be converting to git nicely[1] ... I'll throw it up on github once I get it working. May take a few days (weeks if I get too busy ;-). [1]...
Guy Hulbert
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Jan 1, 2009 4:15 pm
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... The problem that I see is that it's calling 'sudo' unnecessarily. Everything else built and installed without that (on debian /usr/local is setgid and...
Guy Hulbert
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Jan 1, 2009 4:29 pm
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Hi Dennis A have some related experience to you project and I kept the win32 port up for a while. A few comments: First it looked possible you were confused by...
Hi, I am new to IO and today I wanted to get in touch with IO. For that reason I assigned a task to myself and wrote an IO program to fetch all my flickr...
... However, having run everything carefully, it seems the problem is this line in the 'clean' target: ./_build/binaries/io_static$(BINARY_SUFFIX) build.io...
Guy Hulbert
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Jan 2, 2009 4:55 pm
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Not related to Io or Caribou, but... :) I'm trying out a recycling, external ref-counting collector in combination with pooled objects. It solves the cache...
I got it :) A few questions... Float is a type of Integer? These days, I see String more as a root object or "character related" than inheriting from Array,...
Is there any way to do default values in method argument lists, a la PHP? Example: function php_function($default = "default") { echo $default; } I can call...
... Here's one way: foo := method(a, b, if(b isNil, b = defaultValue) ) I'd add that if you're passing a lot of arguments, you're probably not writing well...
... I'd like to amend that statement by saying "well-factored" instead of "well-structured". I've seen extremely well structured procedures that still took 22...
Thanks for your responses. The method I was working on was one that interacts with a REST API, and it's a general request function that accepts a third...
I wrote a very simple JSON parser suitable for using with things like web service and CouchDB responses. http://gist.github.com/42776 It doesn't encode JSON,...
... It's not sorted exactly. It's a red black tree with in-order tree traversal. ... Regards, Jeremy Tregunna jeremy.tregunna@......
Jeremy Tregunna
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Jan 3, 2009 10:52 pm
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... It's a good idea to not support random access to characters in strings, except when treating them as arrays. Thus, Array is a very poor model for the...
... While there are disadvantages, some of the advantages of strings as arrays are: - it simplifies the implementation of mutation operations - one can unify...
... It only simplifies array-type mutation operations, which are NOT the most common string mutations. If you want string-type mutation operations, like...
... UCS2 (UTF-16) is fixed width only in the basic plane... But this doesn't matter. Even using UCS4, Lithuanian or Korean require combining characters for...
... Am I misreading this?: "UTF-32 (or UCS-4) is a protocol for encoding Unicode characters that uses exactly 32 bits for each Unicodecode point. All other...