Le Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:47:46 -0700, ... Yes. ... This I don't understand. Denis ... la vita e estrany...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 16, 2009 10:47 pm
... That's basically how class based languages (and some prototype based languages like Self) work. Some issues: 1. it's often useful to have inherited...
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spir
denis.spir@...
Apr 16, 2009 2:33 pm
Le Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:40:07 -0400, ... One more general question. Some time ago I evoked the possibility of copying a proto's dict to its clones, instead of...
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spir
denis.spir@...
Apr 16, 2009 2:06 pm
Le Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:09:20 -0400, ... Yes. Thank you for the precision. ... Exactly. That's it: I had no example in mind, but actually adding an attribute on...
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Guy Hulbert
gwhulbert@...
Apr 16, 2009 12:55 pm
... I think this answers the question I was originally trying to ask. [snip] ... It makes sense to me. It would be useful if it made it into the Io ...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 16, 2009 12:13 pm
... Not exactly. You'll note in my second e-mail, that I create two objects that descend from Object. I mix in the behaviour of the first object into the...
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spir
denis.spir@...
Apr 16, 2009 8:14 am
Le Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:38:23 -0700, ... Just an addition to try and be clear. The point in Jeremy's asMixin is to first inherit behaviour from a proto, while...
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Samuel A. Falvo II
falvosa
Apr 16, 2009 5:38 am
... I already explained this in my hypothetical example. What you're describing here is great, as long as you can trust Math to never, ever be tweaked by...
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Scott Solmonson
scosol
Apr 16, 2009 4:25 am
Hmm perhaps I'm missing something- Does not the standard Proto behavior already make this easy (and sensible?) Why would I not just clone "Math" to...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 15, 2009 10:39 pm
... Thanks for the offer; if the git bug tracker doesn't work out, I'll check it out....
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 15, 2009 7:03 pm
What you're describing is an aspect. Note I didn't provide an asAspect, because that would make absolutely no sense in the context of the one liner i posted...
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Nick Guenther
kousue@...
Apr 15, 2009 6:07 pm
I think you're getting caught up in this detail of Io's behaviour. Mixins are very useful for collecting a set of behaviour in one package *that can be...
... I'm not sure why you're asking me this. This line of questioning is ultimately meaningless in a fully dynamic, prototypical model as Io, precisely because...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 15, 2009 5:38 pm
... Consider you're modeling a new drug, and some element changes in it. Would you not want that change to reflect against all instances thereof in your model?...
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spir
denis.spir@...
Apr 15, 2009 5:30 pm
Le Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:04:38 -0700, ... I would rather ask the opposite question: in which (real world and/or theoretical) case can one expect the parent...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 15, 2009 5:17 pm
... An example: Foo := Object clone do(prependProto(Math); ...) Foo add(2, 3) == 5 // before replacing Math add Foo add(2, 3) == 6 // after replacing Math add...
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Samuel A. Falvo II
falvosa
Apr 15, 2009 5:04 pm
... Isolation. Use this method when/if you anticipate your parent(s) might change in the future, but you want to preserve their current behavior as a snapshot...
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Guy Hulbert
gwhulbert@...
Apr 15, 2009 4:56 pm
... Hmm.. can you explain a bit more -- *why* you would want to do this. It's useful to know that this is how Io behaves but it's not obvious to me why it's...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 15, 2009 4:47 pm
I suppose a use case would be apropos. It'll be very bad, but design isn't what this is about. Consider the utility object "Math" containing an "add" method...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 15, 2009 4:40 pm
Just thought I'd put this out there, topic came up in #io today about real mixins (not utilizing differential inheritance), so I set out to write them and...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 14, 2009 11:46 am
I've a very simple bug tracker i wrote in ruby, for caribou's website. just the absolute basics, severities, priorities, brief descirptions, how to repeat,...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 13, 2009 10:27 pm
... Not sure. If not, maybe a feature request to the GitBug author would be helpful. Fwiw, if he can keep GitBug simple, I'd certainly pay a small yearly ...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 13, 2009 10:22 pm
... It's ~2 orders of magnitude slower than C for typical scripting uses. That said, given that graphics is done on the GPU and the audio is mostly in C, there...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 13, 2009 7:32 pm
... I would suggest only using Io as a control language in such a project unless you turn on SIMD acceleration and only do intensive vector related...
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Friedrich Weber
fred.reichbier@...
Apr 13, 2009 7:11 pm
Hi all, I think it's nice that Io is going to have a bug tracker again. Is it possible to answer to reports on GitBug? I can't see a button for that even if...
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tobeythorn
Apr 13, 2009 6:21 pm
Hi, I've become interested in learning Io and using it for game development and was wondering how its performance compares to c and/or objective-c. Of course,...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 13, 2009 10:39 am
... Thanks Andreas. It looks like it's there and I did receive an email for it. Not sure how to add the mailing list to get changes....
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Andreas Schipplock
schipplock
Apr 13, 2009 9:34 am
Morning, I just posted an "issue" and I'm wondering if it's supposed to show up there... :). Kind regards, Andreas. ... -- - Kind regards, Andreas Schipplock....
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 13, 2009 1:53 am
I've set up a bug tracker for Io at: http://gitbug.appspot.com/projects/iolanguage/ Please feel free to post to it. It's just a test for now, but if it works...
