Eliot Miranda's talk this Wednesday should be of great interest to many people in this group: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/030312.html ... I...
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legyxo42
Mar 25, 2003 9:05 pm
Hi, I'm trying to clip drawing submorphs with baseBounds of their owner. code looks like this: drawon: aCanvas = ( baseDrawOn: aCanvas. 0 = morphCount ifFalse:...
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Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jeceljr
Mar 26, 2003 11:11 pm
... It is okay, but not enough since clipping is not fully implemented but only has some methods here and there. In particular, this line would be needed: c gc...
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legyxo42
Mar 30, 2003 12:05 pm
thanx a lot. it works fine. legyxo...
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Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 1, 2003 4:12 pm
Please distribute widely ... ESUG is proud to announce the second international call for its Sponsoring Program of Smalltalk books. ...
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Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 1, 2003 4:15 pm
Hi Latin American Selfers! Hope you enjoy this message! There are plenty of free books to be downloaded! See the previous message! Albertina Hi Albertina, how...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 5, 2003 7:31 am
This reminded my of Self's interface to objects somehow: http://www.nakedobjects.org/ Cheers, Steve Io, a small language: http://www.iolanguage.com/...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 6, 2003 5:26 am
When Self follows an inheritance chain, will it activate methods in parent slots? That is, if set an Object to have a parent slot containing a method(instead...
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David Ungar
David.Ungar@...
Apr 7, 2003 6:09 am
Well, Randy always wanted it to, but we never implemented it. - Dave...
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James McCartney
james_e_mcca...
Apr 7, 2003 8:24 am
Do you have a specific problem in mind that can benefit from this feature? ... -- ... SuperCollider - a real time synthesis programming language for the ...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 7, 2003 8:33 am
... Someone on the Io list was interested in using it to implement private slots. (the parent block would check the sender before deciding which parent to use)...
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Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jeceljr
Apr 7, 2003 10:58 pm
... Dave has already answered "no", but I would like to consider the practical complications of such a scheme. Does the method take any arguments? If so, when...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 9, 2003 12:56 am
... Thanks for the response. Yeah, I don't like it as it breaks the lookup loop detection scheme used in Self(setting a bit in each object tranversed) as a...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 9, 2003 8:28 pm
Is there any difference between a Self/Smalltalk block and a LISP closure? Cheers, Steve...
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James McCartney
james_e_mcca...
Apr 9, 2003 10:50 pm
It depends on the Smalltalk. A full closure can be returned from a function and still refer to that function's variables. Self disallows this, as do some...
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Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jeceljr
Apr 9, 2003 11:41 pm
... That depends on what you mean by "Self block". You might be thinking about any of the following three objects: 1) what is translated from the "[...]"...
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Steve Dekorte
stevedekorte
Apr 9, 2003 11:58 pm
... Thanks for the response(from you and James). ... Actually, I was wondering how Self implements coroutines. Does it do it by manipulating it's internal...
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tb@...
Apr 10, 2003 5:29 am
... This is a fiction that the Smalltalk crowd likes to talk about, and it's a shame that the Self crowd also repeats it. In languages which support closures,...
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Brian T Rice
water4512001
Apr 10, 2003 7:00 am
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 tb@... wrote: [snipped analysis I agree with.] ... We've been following this course with Slate. -- Brian T. Rice LOGOS Research and...
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James McCartney
james_e_mcca...
Apr 10, 2003 6:31 pm
... I'm probably not in the Self crowd since I've yet to actually run it. My own language does support full closures. I think you didn't read my words as...
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tb@...
Apr 10, 2003 6:48 pm
... I'm sorry that I may have mistaken your words; this was not my intention. ... Right, and I should have been more moderate in my words. I really wanted to...
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Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 13, 2003 4:43 pm
Dear All! Curiously not wanting to provoke you or offend you, Smalltalk was ... This is fun because for me this is the opposite. But I come from a lisp ...
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Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 13, 2003 6:39 pm
Stephane Ducasse wrote: Hi Stef! It is cool to hear from you!!! ... I don't drive in Brazil because the traffic is chaotic!! I am unable to kill even an...
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tb@...
Apr 13, 2003 11:43 pm
... I guess he just expects you have already studied the language somewhat. My suggestion is to get a copy of SICP, which can show you a fair bit about the...
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Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 14, 2003 12:13 am
tb@... wrote: Dear! ... Chapter 2 Common Lisp from Paul Graham explains everything!!! ... book and here it is: ...
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Paul Chapman
igblan
Apr 14, 2003 12:10 pm
(I've sent Harald a private email about this.) New to the group! I'm very new to Cygwin, and my Unix skills have rusted for 15 years or more. I'm trying to...
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Brian T Rice
water4512001
Apr 14, 2003 7:47 pm
... I do not have a Windows installation, but I've noticed that the Demo image often doesn't work with Self/x86 while the barebones image does. Can you get the...
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Paul Chapman
igblan
Apr 14, 2003 8:32 pm
Brian, ... Demo image ... Can you ... Nope. I've just redownloaded everything, and used Unix tools (gunzip, tar) under Cygwin exclusively to unpack the files,...
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Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jeceljr
Apr 15, 2003 12:00 am
... I haven't tried Self on Windows myself, but did use an older version of Cygwin to get Little Smalltalk and GNU Smalltalk to run in Windows. It wasn't too...
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Paul Chapman
igblan
Apr 15, 2003 9:42 am
Jecel, ... Not sure. ... get to ... Didn't know you could do that. I get the same error message. I guess it's not a snapshot problem, then. ... it is ... ...
