July 2010 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

[Pharo-project] MessageNames tool tidyup

by Gary Chambers

Created another issue: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2639 Regards, Gary

July 5, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] bug with documentation link

by Mariano Martinez Peck

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Geert Claes <geert.wl.claes(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: > > > > by the way somebody told me that lighthouse in portuguese is farol and > not > > faro (which means smelling). > > > > I don't speak Portuguese nor Spanish but the good old Google Translate > confirms that lighthouse is indeed Farol and not Faro .... however > lighthouse does still translate as Faro in Spanish :) > Yes, in Spanish, it is Faro. Marcus told me he chose Pharo just to be easily indexed by search engines like Google. It doesn't mean lighthouse in any language. Just a deformation for google ;) cheers mariano > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/bug-with-documentation-link-tp2278198p2278220.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >

July 5, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] bug with documentation link

by Geert Claes

StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: > > by the way somebody told me that lighthouse in portuguese is farol and not > faro (which means smelling). > I don't speak Portuguese nor Spanish but the good old Google Translate confirms that lighthouse is indeed Farol and not Faro .... however lighthouse does still translate as Faro in Spanish :) -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/bug-with-documentation-link-tp2278198p2278220.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

July 5, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] bug with documentation link

by Adrian Lienhard

I exchanged the tutorial/books page with the FAQ page so that the former gets displayed by default. We don't have a Screencasts page; what content would such a page contain? Would we list available screen cast or just link to http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/? Adrian On Jul 5, 2010, at 11:47 , StÃ©phane Ducasse wrote: > Hi all > > when I go to the pharo web site and click on documentation I go to faq (and I do not care of FAQ) > I want to see screencast > adrian could it be possible to get > > Documentation > tutorialBooks > screencast > faq > > > by the way somebody told me that lighthouse in portuguese is farol and not faro (which means smelling). > > Stef > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project

July 5, 2010

[Pharo-project] bug with documentation link

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

Hi all when I go to the pharo web site and click on documentation I go to faq (and I do not care of FAQ) I want to see screencast adrian could it be possible to get Documentation tutorialBooks screencast faq by the way somebody told me that lighthouse in portuguese is farol and not faro (which means smelling). Stef

July 5, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] OSProcess in Pharo (on Windows)

by Fabrizio Perin

Hi, I don't know if there were some evolution on OSProcess but sometime ago i had problem using it under Windows too. Basically under Windows some primitives used during the initialization fails. The result is that OSProcess cannot comunicate with the actual OS. So no magic incantation available as far as i know. Cheers, Fabrizio 2010/7/5 Rob Rothwell <r.j.rothwell(a)gmail.com> > Forgive me if this question has already been answered, but I can't seem to > find it... > > Is OSProcess running in Pharo, and what is the magic incantation to call an > external program, batch file, etc... in Windows? > > I seem to recall something like: > > OSProcess thisOSProcess command: 'dosomething.exe' > > But that doesn't seem to currently be working for me... > > Thank you, > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >

July 5, 2010

[Pharo-project] I updated the how to contribute web page

by stephane ducasse

please comment :) http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/HowToContribute Stef

July 5, 2010

[Pharo-project] OSProcess in Pharo (on Windows)

by Rob Rothwell

Forgive me if this question has already been answered, but I can't seem to find it... Is OSProcess running in Pharo, and what is the magic incantation to call an external program, batch file, etc... in Windows? I seem to recall something like: OSProcess thisOSProcess command: 'dosomething.exe' But that doesn't seem to currently be working for me... Thank you, Rob

July 5, 2010

[Pharo-project] [update 1.2] #12034

by StÃ©phane Ducasse

12034 ----- - Issue 2638: DNU does not open a debugger. Thanks pavel :) We are allowed to break the system to improve it ok after we have to help to repair it :) Stef

July 4, 2010

Re: [Pharo-project] What does it take to implement tail-call optimization?

by Eliot Miranda

[oops; forgot the link I meant to post, so here's a 2nd attempt On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Stefan Marr <pharo(a)stefan-marr.de> wrote: > Hello Pharo: > > What would it take to implement tail-call optimization? > > My goal is to have an Erlang-like framework, which allows to port existing > Erlang code as straight forward as possible. > But this requires to have tail-call optimization, since Erlang provides no > loops. > But the system will run for a long time before it runs out of stack. Don't get hung up on this. Continue with the rest of the problem. > However, I am not going for implementing the whole language and all its > semantics, but only the basics I am interested in. > > So, a possible solution would also be a pragma/hint to the compiler to > apply the optimization. > When you come to deal with tail calls you may find that the obvious case, namely spotting recursive sends to self, is adequate, in which case the compiler implementation is relatively trivial; one maps a tail-recursive send to self to a set of assignments to the arguments (*) followed by any necessary pops to level the stack, followed by a jump to the start. (* Assignment to arguments legal in the bytecode; the compiler prevents explicit assignment to arguments but args and temps are the same at the bytecode level). > Has anyone done something like this before, or has some hints where to > start digging? > Various people, myself included, have done context-based hacks for fun, but they're merely parlour tricks; they have abysmal performance (certainly for loops, which is where we came in), no safety and don't integrate with the debugger. You'll want to look at Scheme and Java implementations. There's an excellent discussion in Gilad Bracha's blog<http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/12/chased-by-ones-own-tail.html>which has some good starting points. If Newspeak gets ported to Cog (or rather vice verse, if Cog is extended to run Newspeak) and Gilad doesn't dismount from the TCO hobby horse then I expect TCO will be implemented in Cog in a more complete manner. But as Gilad says, "one can cheat for a very long time though.". best Eliot > Thanks > Stefan > > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >

July 4, 2010