On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:04:43 +0100 ... Sounds like a plan! When do you guys usually hang out there? Or does it matter? I need to brush up on using IRC first. I...
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gatesphere
suspended_chord
Feb 26, 2012 8:07 pm
I'm on pretty much all day every day. I don't believe I've *ever* not seen jer (Jeremy Tregunna) online. I go by the handle "gatesphere" on there. I'm in the...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Feb 26, 2012 8:08 pm
... I'm online, but not always available. I do work for a living :p jer...
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gatesphere
suspended_chord
Feb 26, 2012 8:09 pm
My statement still stands. :P -->Jake...
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Duke Normandin
cgnormandin
Feb 26, 2012 10:18 pm
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:07:07 -0500 ... Cool! I just fired XChat to try it out. I've got the Chatzilla add-on for Firefox as well. I'll see which one gives me...
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suspended_chord
Mar 2, 2012 3:43 pm
Hello all, Just thought I'd let you know that I'm updating the binary builds of Io this weekend, to reflect the last 4 months of development on mainline Io. ...
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gatesphere
suspended_chord
Mar 2, 2012 8:37 pm
A small update: all of the packages have been built at this point. They're going online soon. -->Jake...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Mar 2, 2012 8:45 pm
Thanks for maintaining the binaries - it makes life much easier for new users. Cheers, Steve...
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gatesphere
suspended_chord
Mar 2, 2012 8:53 pm
No problem! -->Jake...
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suspended_chord
Mar 2, 2012 9:47 pm
And now they're all up. Enjoy! -->Jake...
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Duke Normandin
cgnormandin
Mar 2, 2012 10:21 pm
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:47:20 -0000 ... Thank you for going the extra mile, Jake!! Today must be Io "rebuild" day! I just got finished updating mygit Io tree,...
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norbertmuellerde
norbertmuell...
Mar 3, 2012 7:56 pm
Hello, I am trying to use Io under Ubuntu 10.04 and have a strange behaviour: % cat operator.io OperatorTable addOperator (":",1) Object : := method (a, self...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Mar 3, 2012 7:59 pm
... It's not a bug. Here's why. Operator transformation happens at compile time. In the REPL this is each time you hit enter. However, in a file, it's when the...
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norbertmuellerde
norbertmuell...
Mar 3, 2012 9:31 pm
... <snip> ... Hi Jeremy, thanks for your quick response, I wasn't aware that there is such a thing as compile time in an interpreted language. But thinking...
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Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...
Mar 3, 2012 9:34 pm
... The compile time in Io is when tokenization occurs, construction of the AST (messages) and when the operator shuffler runs. It's very lightweight. Regards,...
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gatesphere
suspended_chord
Mar 7, 2012 4:42 pm
Just a quick update - someone pointed out a bug with the Mac installer over email, and as a result, I've rebuilt it and reup-ed it. Apparently, this particular...
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Duke Normandin
cgnormandin
Mar 8, 2012 1:33 am
Can't find it! Anyway know where it got to? and who's Quag? :) -- Duke...
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bqt0xenk
Mar 12, 2012 7:03 pm
Hi, I try executing this code: regex := Regex with("a+") match := "aaaa73noises" matchesOfRegex(regex) next but get this error: IoState_protoWithId_() Error:...
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dennisf486
Apr 7, 2012 5:25 pm
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...