Steve, do you still have the code for this you were talking about? I could really use it now. In fact all I need help with is implementing the part for...
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dennisf486
Apr 8, 2012 7:09 pm
In my game engine I now have over 64 Io scripts and probably 100 protos. I reference many 3rd-party libraries, and I want to know what scripts are importing...
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dennisf486
Apr 13, 2012 4:07 am
I hit a snag in my script refactoring. I'm trying to wrap all my proto creations inside methods so that I can pass dependencies as arguments, but I can't...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 13, 2012 4:13 am
The way I'd probably go about doing this is something like this: method( self ldMap := Object clone call message arguments foreach(arg, self ldMap...
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dennisf486
Apr 13, 2012 4:17 am
Haha OK I feel stupid, I just found "lexicalDo" in Io's C source code, it appears it does exactly that. Why doesn't lexicalDo show among the documented Object...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 13, 2012 4:21 am
Given that this comes up every now and then (avg of once a year on this list it seems), I think it's worth considering changing the behaviour of do(). It only...
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dennisf486
Apr 13, 2012 9:59 pm
If you want to make "do" be the same as "lexicalDo", you have my vote. Otherwise, could we at least add an error path so that if an identifier is unknown...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 16, 2012 5:57 pm
Those both sound like good ideas. I'd be happy to accept your github push request for them :) Steve...
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tomkane63
Apr 18, 2012 5:28 pm
I am new to this language, and I love it. I made first contact a couple of months ago with the book 7 langs in 7 weeks. But I have been really struggling...
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Oliver Kiddle
okiddle
Apr 18, 2012 5:28 pm
After reading Bruce A. Tate's 7 languages book, I wondered whether it would be possible to configure IO to support the basic dependency syntax of Unix make....
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 18, 2012 6:32 pm
Hi Oliver, When I wrote the phone book example for Bruce, : was not treated as part of the identifier. Had I known it was going to become part of the...
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Oliver Kiddle
okiddle
Apr 19, 2012 1:01 am
... I think that's a bit of a pity. I can really see why the DSL section is included in the book because it is without doubt one of the things that makes Io...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Apr 19, 2012 1:43 am
Not ideal, but an identifier with a : in its name could only be allowed if it has a valid argument list. This wouldn't break the objc bridge, since: NSString...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 28, 2012 7:08 am
Hi Tom, I'm not on Linux so I can't help directly, but there is a Linux binary that might have what you need on the io home page. Have you tried it? Steve...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 28, 2012 7:49 am
I have it set to moderate new user messages and then turn off moderation for them if their first message is ok. Sorry that I'm not very diligent wrt new...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 28, 2012 11:26 pm
Glad to hear you found a solution - I didn't have any luck digging up that code....
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tomkane63
Apr 30, 2012 11:52 am
Hi Steve, Thanks for the response. And I can see this might be outside your ken, and it's purely an install problem, which is a bit murky in Linux. I took...
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suspended_chord
May 2, 2012 2:48 pm
Hello all, Just posting to announce that I've updated the win32 binary package to fix a directory structure issue I had in the previous release, leading to...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 4, 2012 10:23 pm
... I'd recommend cloning the git repo and compiling it on linux. If you install the dependencies, it should compile the video addons and install everything...
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Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
me@...
May 16, 2012 6:33 am
So I've been using Io for a bit now, writing a package manager, writing a few packages. I even wrote a syntax definition file for Sublime Text 2. One thing...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 16, 2012 6:50 am
Hi Kurtis, An interesting idea. Self did something like this IIRC and I liked it, though it fit in with their Smalltalk infix syntax better. The motivation of...
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Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
me@...
May 16, 2012 6:59 am
That's a great question, and I considered talking about it in the original post but wanted to gauge interest first. My first reaction is to up the :'s....
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Jan-Paul Bultmann
janpaulbultm...
May 16, 2012 8:23 am
It is there so that you can easily update Object members. Take for example the following. A := Object clone do( x := 5 nonlocal := method( x = 10 ) local :=...
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Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
me@...
May 16, 2012 9:08 pm
So while I like :: and : for setterSlot and setSlot symbols, ::: for setterSlot, :: setSlot, and : for updateSlot seems like overkill. Suggestions? On Wed, May...
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Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
me@...
May 16, 2012 9:11 pm
Normally in Programming a numeric entity is called an Integer (when it's not a Float, or similar complex number) and a series of characters is called a String....
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
May 16, 2012 9:17 pm
Radical, but I like our method of assignment in Acute (warning: may contain dragons). Think of this psuedo-c code: (&foo).set(1); This above code would be seen...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
May 16, 2012 9:18 pm
Text certainly is more straight forward than "Sequence"; in the mainline. But for developers, it's not exactly familiar in the context of a single buffer of...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
May 16, 2012 9:22 pm
I agree. "Text" might be a good change when we rewrite string to be UTF8 based. Io already uses "Number", which is a C double....
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Henrik Hansen
henrikeh
May 17, 2012 4:38 am
Right now I'm helping a friend learn how to program, but I found the use of "text" to be a disadvantage because he found the distinction between text data and...
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Kevin Edwards
edwakev
May 17, 2012 6:20 am
... So, Io's `target setSlot(name, value)` would become `target &name set(value)` where the `&` combines the target and the literal "name" into a Slot object...
