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Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 1, 2003 4:12 pm
1499
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...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 1, 2003 4:15 pm
1500
This reminded my of Self's interface to objects somehow: http://www.nakedobjects.org/ Cheers, Steve Io, a small language: http://www.iolanguage.com/...
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...
Well, Randy always wanted it to, but we never implemented it. - Dave...
David Ungar
David.Ungar@...
Apr 7, 2003 6:09 am
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Do you have a specific problem in mind that can benefit from this feature? ... -- ... SuperCollider - a real time synthesis programming language for the ...
... 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)...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
... 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 "[...]"...
... 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...
... 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,...
tb@...
Apr 10, 2003 5:29 am
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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...
... 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...
... 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...
tb@...
Apr 10, 2003 6:48 pm
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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 ...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 13, 2003 4:43 pm
1516
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...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 13, 2003 6:39 pm
1517
... 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...
tb@...
Apr 13, 2003 11:43 pm
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tb@... wrote: Dear! ... Chapter 2 Common Lisp from Paul Graham explains everything!!! ... book and here it is: ...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 14, 2003 12:13 am
1519
(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...
... 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...
Brian, ... Demo image ... Can you ... Nope. I've just redownloaded everything, and used Unix tools (gunzip, tar) under Cygwin exclusively to unpack the files,...
... 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...
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 ... ...
Paul, I'm afraid the cygwin version of Self is currently broken - probably because of some changes in memory allocation within cygwin.dll (cygwin 1.3.19 is the...
DEar All! First of all I would like if someone explain to me if there are differences between bottom-up programming and exploratory programming. Paul Graham...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Apr 22, 2003 12:04 pm
1526
... Because exploratory programming requires the discovery of design and the evolution of a language to express that design, it tends to be closer to bottom up...
... This is way off topic, but here is a short reply: Imagine that a program A is made up of components B, C and D. Suppose that component C is made up of...
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