I have accidentally typed http://iolanguage.org at browser (instead of http://iolanguage.com) and I have met a new website on io! Which one is the 'official'...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Jan 12, 2009 9:34 am
... http://iolanguage.com is the official site. I wasn't aware of this site - the last time I looked it was a domain squatter site. It's nice to see people are...
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Danya Alexeyevsky
me_dendik
Jan 12, 2009 3:25 pm
You might've noticed Andreas Schipplock signature everywhere on the .org site, who obviously is not Steve Dekorte :) 2Andreas, a feature request: It'd be nice,...
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Andreas Schipplock
schipplock
Jan 12, 2009 6:31 pm
True that :). I have modified the header graphic and I agree with you that this website has to claim it's unofficial. I already thought about it but it's just...
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Kon Lovett
noonofday
Jan 16, 2009 6:32 pm
Hi, I am attempting to build the "current" Io source (git pull) on MacOS 10.5.6 PPC, but encountering a problem. The Coro.c source says that "APPLE coros are...
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dennisf486
Jan 20, 2009 4:51 pm
I want to second Mike's statement about Io's niche being scripting for games. I read a lot of people talking about competing with Ruby on Rails; please don't...
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Cliff Wells
wellscliff
Jan 20, 2009 5:27 pm
... I'd prefer that Io remain a general-purpose language, ideally suited for almost any niche. In any case, I'm unaware of any language not specifically...
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Rich Collins
richwcollins
Jan 20, 2009 8:10 pm
The main issue with building Io on Windows is its reliance on a posix environment for the build process. To overcome this, we usually build Io from the cygwin...
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dennisf486
Jan 20, 2009 11:09 pm
... How do you do this? This is what we want to do to compile our game engine, but I couldn't find anything on the web explaining how. (Currently the engine...
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dennisf486
Jan 20, 2009 11:29 pm
... I ... James, that's f---ing brilliant! Instead of thinking of the VM as something you run on a CPU, I can think of the VM as a CPU that just runs Io...
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Rich Collins
richwcollins
Jan 21, 2009 12:22 am
SYS=Windows make vm You need your include and lib paths env variables set properly so that cl.exe knows where to look. I haven't built on windows in a while,...
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Mike Austin
mike_ekim
Jan 21, 2009 8:12 am
"3. You Need an Application to Drive the Design of a Language." - http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html Coroutines and futures are great, but there are no...
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William Tanksley, Jr
wtanksle
Jan 21, 2009 4:38 pm
... I dunno if I "buy" what Graham is selling (no disrespect, "On Lisp" is a fun and useful book). You can't claim that his 'Arc' is successful in the senses...
I think you want: list(list(1,2),list(1,1),list(2,0)) sortBy(block(x, y, x < y)) The return value of block(x, x) will always be non-false, so it really sort ...
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Brian Mitchell
binary42@...
Jan 22, 2009 6:33 am
I think the confusion is what sortBy takes as an argument. A block that provides a sortable representation or something that provides the actual sort order....
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Csaba Henk
dzsekijo
Jan 22, 2009 9:40 pm
... Yay, damned preconceptions. I assumed it works like in some other language, the sort_by method of which can be expressed like: List do( sortByalaRuby =...
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Ola Bini
olabini
Jan 22, 2009 10:02 pm
Actually, you're wrong. Ruby has two different methods, one called sort, and one called sort_by. sort takes a block that does the comparison, while sort_by has...
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Csaba Henk
dzsekijo
Jan 22, 2009 11:29 pm
... OK, I did my homework, I see now it should be as you write, block(x, y, x < y) Sorry for trying to be too clever. Csaba...
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Csaba Henk
dzsekijo
Jan 23, 2009 12:05 am
... I think you misunderstood what I said (which I don't claim to be necessarily your fault). ... We agree on it, that's what I meant to say. ... That's what I...
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Csaba Henk
dzsekijo
Jan 23, 2009 12:28 am
... Hm, I tried to implement the argument-mapping sort for Io, but it doesn't works as expected. Can someone see the reason? $ cat sm.io; echo --------- //...
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Csaba Henk
dzsekijo
Jan 23, 2009 6:04 pm
... OK, I found it myself. ... ^^^^^ here I should use "method", not "block" ... ... Now it's fine. Csaba...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Jan 25, 2009 10:41 am
Didn't realize there were so many - interesting stuff: http://github.com/languages/Io - Steve...
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anekos616
Jan 25, 2009 10:57 pm
Hi. Perhaps, I found a bug. "call sender" returns weird object. Is this a bug? [Reproduction method] Foo := Object clone Foo name := "This is foo." Foo priv :=...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Jan 25, 2009 11:01 pm
Because "call sender" refers to the locals of your bar method. ... Regards, Jeremy Tregunna jeremy.tregunna@......
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anekos616
Jan 26, 2009 1:52 am
Thanks for reply. I got it!! It's very nice and fun spec. Regards. -- anekos <anekos@...>...
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kaveh.shahbazian@...
kaveh.shahba...
Jan 26, 2009 8:10 pm
One thing about DLR that keeps me thinking about it is that DLR provides easier integration with SilverLight and as DLR is being deployed within the .NET 4.0...
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Stefan O'Rear
stefanor@...
Jan 31, 2009 1:17 am
# Run this code snippet. My expectation is that it will immediately # exit; instead it loops forever. Moreover, if terminated with SIGINT, # it does...
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Rich Collins
richwcollins
Jan 31, 2009 8:51 am
You need to send break, not return....
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Feb 1, 2009 8:51 pm
... For now, I'd suggest doing: e := try(E raise) if(e, return)...
