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Re: [Pharo-dev] [Cuis] Sorting Unicode strings (Re: [Unicode] collation sequences (Re: [squeak-dev] Unicode Support))

by Dale Henrichs

On 12/08/2015 04:59 PM, EuanM wrote: > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Stable_Code_Points > Table 7, the discussion of Ligatures, (which uses the ligature of > "ffi" as its example) > > Every time I think I'm about to grokk this standard, something like > this crops up. > Table 7 and Table 8 are showing different normalization forms and I think Table 8 is an example where the two strings are equivalent (the are two categories of normalization: canonical equivalent [table 7] and compatibility equivalent [table 8]) .... it seems (I haven't delved this far myself) that the normalization form is chosen based on the actual set of characters and possibly some application specific choices .... So I don't think there is a fixed one-size fits all interpretation ... which makes duplicating the functionality ICU challenging.... Dale

Dec. 9, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] doing stupid things (image will become unusable)

by Nicolai Hess

2015-12-08 17:44 GMT+01:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr>: > Yes, I wondered why it was not done in semantic analysisâ¦ would be much > easier. > > The binding approach only takes care of reflective change (Smalltalk > globals at: Object put: nil), > a case that is not as important to fix. (reflection is dangerous, > disallowing just this one > operation does not help). > > We should do some experiments. > by the way, what is the difference between LiteralVariable : isGlobal and isGlobalVariable ? > > Marcus > > On 08 Dec 2015, at 17:33, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > I remember. But what I do not remember is if the compiler was aware of it. > > I remember you had these ReadOnlyVariable, subclass of association that > redefined #value:. You were however still capable of doing: > > MyReadOnlyVar := 1. > > On 8 dic 2015, at 5:29 p.m., Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > There used to be a mechanism for that (readonly variable bindings). > > It was there but not used: half the globals where readonly, all globals > added > after the experiment was done where ânormalâ. > > With the new âfirst classâ variables we could easily add that back in a > clean way. > > Marcus > > On 08 Dec 2015, at 17:19, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Object := nil > > you can evaluate that piece of code, but afterwards .... > > Opal checks for assignments to read only variables (method arguments for > example) > and signals an error if you try to modify those vars. > But it does not check globals. > > Should all Globals (OCLiteralVariable with isGlobalVar == true) be read > only ? > or can we distinguish global vars and class bindings? > > > > >

Dec. 9, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] Ubuntu 14.04 with pharo-launcher

by Nicolai Hess

You can try to use an absolute path for the vm and the image in the Exec= line 2015-12-09 19:47 GMT+01:00 Trussardi Dario Romano < dario.trussardi(a)tiscali.it>: > Ciao, > > on Ubuntu system 14.04 i load the Pharo-launcher support. > > Now all the pharo.image on the system run with the same pharo VM, > > but i have a image ( Glass TODE environment ) to load with specific VM > and relative library. > > If i load it with the default pharo VM, when i do some Tode commands the > system report: Error: External module not found. > > I think to create a new launcher application. > > I copy the /usr/share/applications/pharo-vm-desktop into > pharoTode-vm.desktop > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Pharo Tode VM > GenericName=Pharo Tode Virtual Machine > Exec=pharo-vm-x %F > Icon=pharo > Terminal=false > Type=Application > StartupNotify=false > Categories=Development; > MimeType=application/x-pharo-image; > NoDisplay=true > > but i don't understand how reference the specific Pharo VM. > > I have a gsDevKitHome/pharo directory with the todeClient.image, the pharo > bash > > and pharo-vm subdirectory with the relative pharo-vm and relative lib* > to connect with the glass environment. > > > Thanks for considerations, > > Dario > >

Dec. 9, 2015

Call for Papers: Reflect'16, Workshop on Reflection and Runtime Meta-Programming Techniques

by Stefan Marr

Call for Papers: Reflectâ16 =========================== Workshop on Reflection and Runtime Meta-Programming Techniques Co-located with Modularity 2016 March 14 or 15, 2016, MÃ¡laga, Spain Twitter @ReflectWorkshop http://2016.modularity.info/track/Reflect-2016-papers With modern mainstream languages embracing runtime reflection, for instance in JavaScript with proxies and Ruby with its culture of using meta-programming, the research on meta-architectures, reflective programming, and other meta-programming techniques have become relevant and timely once again. Over the last couple of years, these techniques saw a surge of interest benefiting from the JavaScript standardization process as well as performance improvements based on just-in-time compilation that increased their general acceptance. The Reflectâ16 workshop aims to bring together people who do research on reflection and runtime meta-programming, as well as users of such techniques to e.g. build applications, language extensions, or software tools. We invite contributions to the workshop on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of reflective APIs and runtime meta-programming techniques, as well as empirical studies and typing for such systems and languages. We welcome technical papers as well as work-in-progress and position papers from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Position paper should take a perhaps controversial stance on a specific topic and argue the position well. Topics of Interest ------------------ The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - applications to middleware, frameworks, and DSLs - reflection and metaobject protocols to enable tooling - meta-level architectures and reflective middleware for modern runtime platforms (e.g. IoT, cyber-physical systems, cloud/grid computing, exa-scale systems, smart grids, mobile systems) - optimization techniques to minimize runtime overhead of reflection - use for application-level runtime optimization - new language constructs for reflection and meta-programming - security in reflective systems and capability-based designs - application of reflective techniques to achieve adaptability, separation of concerns, code reuse, etc. - empirical studies to the dynamic behavior of reflective programs - application to enable complex concurrent systems - typing of reflective programs Workshop Format and Submissions ------------------------------- This workshop welcomes the presentation of mature work as well as discussion of new ideas and emerging problems as part of a mini-conference format. Furthermore, we plan for more interactive brainstorming and demonstration sessions between the formal presentations to enable an active exchange of ideas. The workshop papers will be published in both the electronic proceedings of the Modularity conference and in the ACM Digital Library, if not requested otherwise by the authors. Papers are to be submitted using the ACM sigplanconf style at 9pt font size. See http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html. position and work-in-progress paper: max. 4 pages technical paper: max. 8 pages demos and posters: 1-page abstract For the submission, please use the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=reflect16 Important Dates --------------- abstract submission: January 11, 2016 paper submission: January 15, 2016 notification: February 6, 2016 camera-ready: February 13, 2016 all deadlines: Anywhere on Earth (AoE), i.e., GMT/UTCâ12:00 hour Workshop Organizers ------------------- Gilad Bracha, Google Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Stefan Marr, Johannes Kepler University Linz Program Committee ----------------- Daniele Bonetta, Oracle Labs, Austria Damien Cassou, University of Lille 1, France Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Stephane Ducasse, Inria, France Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, Germany Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University, USA Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1 and INRIA, France Eric Tanter, University of Chile, Chile Laurie Tratt, Kingâs College, UK Tom Van Cutsem, Bell Labs, Belgium Takuo Wantanabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tijs van der Storm, CWI, NL -- Stefan Marr Johannes Kepler UniversitÃ¤t Linz http://stefan-marr.de/research/

Dec. 9, 2015

Ubuntu 14.04 with pharo-launcher

by Trussardi Dario Romano

Ciao, on Ubuntu system 14.04 i load the Pharo-launcher support. Now all the pharo.image on the system run with the same pharo VM, but i have a image ( Glass TODE environment ) to load with specific VM and relative library. If i load it with the default pharo VM, when i do some Tode commands the system report: Error: External module not found. I think to create a new launcher application. I copy the /usr/share/applications/pharo-vm-desktop into pharoTode-vm.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Pharo Tode VM GenericName=Pharo Tode Virtual Machine Exec=pharo-vm-x %F Icon=pharo Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=false Categories=Development; MimeType=application/x-pharo-image; NoDisplay=true but i don't understand how reference the specific Pharo VM. I have a gsDevKitHome/pharo directory with the todeClient.image, the pharo bash and pharo-vm subdirectory with the relative pharo-vm and relative lib* to connect with the glass environment. Thanks for considerations, Dario

Dec. 9, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Cuis] Sorting Unicode strings (Re: [Unicode] collation sequences (Re: [squeak-dev] Unicode Support))

by H. Hirzel

It seems that people at Twitter just did this for Ruby -- reimplementation from scratch with an API oriented towards Ruby users. A summary http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6263 Of course it depends on what you expect to achieve. This thread starts with aiming at getting German, French and Spanish sorting done. Plus some other similar cases. The algorithms are table driven and the tables are read into the Smalltalk image as is. As of now the Unicode Character Database is in the Squeak/Pharo image http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6244 Getting the sorting done does not seem to be extraordinary hard. However making use of the Smalltalk ICU wrapper is surely an option. --Hannes On 12/9/15, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard(a)mac.com> wrote: > They are practically the same thing. > > ICU was developed by Taligent which was a joint venture between Apple and > IBM. Makes sense that NSString and ICU's UnicodeString are pretty close in > implementation. ICU was also ported to Java for Sun by IBM. The point is - > this is a very elaborate chunk of code with far reach. If ICU is wrong on > some point - it is universally wrong and thus likely to be taken as "right" > as it is at least consistent. I think re-implementing it is folly TBH. > Just use it. > >> On Dec 8, 2015, at 15:52, EuanM <euanmee(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Equally old are the NextStep Object C functions which are now embodied >> within MacOS X. >> > > >

Dec. 9, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] How does Nautilus change highlighting for class definitions

by Marco Naddeo

Thanks to both for your help! :) Il 09/12/2015 16:56, Skip Lentz ha scritto: > >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou(a)inria.fr >> <mailto:damien.cassou@inria.fr>> wrote: >> >> Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess(a)gmail.com <mailto:nicolaihess@gmail.com>> >> writes: >> >>> 2015-12-09 14:45 GMT+01:00 Skip Lentz <skip.lentz(a)inria.fr >>> <mailto:skip.lentz@inria.fr>>: >>> >>> But beware, there are multiple parts involved if you use nautilus code >>> pane. >>> - parser for syntax highlighting >>> - the styler itself >>> - completion ( you may or may not want to have NEC to popup the >>> completion >>> menu) >>> - class / method selection dependent menu entries (Suggestions for >>> example) >>> - the acceptor (on accept, a class definition is execute, a method >>> definition is compiled) >> >> >> thanks to both. >> >> >>> what are ini-modules? >> >> >> it's a tentative replacement for class-side instance creation methods >> that suffer >> from a lot of problems. It's a new concept, just like traits and slots, >> except that it solves the instance creation problems listed at the end >> of >> >> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~MarcoNaddeo/IniModules > > Looks nice, will the UI you are creating show some special way of > displaying/editing them? Or is it just to be able to see a list of > ini-modules in the browser and edit them in ordinary syntax? The second one, for this prototype. But I surely agree with you that, in the future, a more sophisticated GUI could help a lot the class developer in defining ini-modules. Marco >> Thanks again >> >> -- >> Damien Cassou >> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st >> >> "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without >> losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill >> > -- Marco Naddeo PhD Student Dipartimento di Informatica UniversitÃ degli Studi di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy

Dec. 9, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Cuis] Sorting Unicode strings (Re: [Unicode] collation sequences (Re: [squeak-dev] Unicode Support))

by Todd Blanchard

They are practically the same thing. ICU was developed by Taligent which was a joint venture between Apple and IBM. Makes sense that NSString and ICU's UnicodeString are pretty close in implementation. ICU was also ported to Java for Sun by IBM. The point is - this is a very elaborate chunk of code with far reach. If ICU is wrong on some point - it is universally wrong and thus likely to be taken as "right" as it is at least consistent. I think re-implementing it is folly TBH. Just use it. > On Dec 8, 2015, at 15:52, EuanM <euanmee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Equally old are the NextStep Object C functions which are now embodied > within MacOS X. >

Dec. 9, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Cuis] Sorting Unicode strings (Re: [Unicode] collation sequences (Re: [squeak-dev] Unicode Support))

by Todd Blanchard

So we should start with that. Fwiw - icu also provides time and date format internationalization and some other utilities. It is a very comprehensive library. Sent from the road > On Dec 9, 2015, at 07:03, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 12/8/15, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard(a)mac.com> wrote: >> I just want to second Dale's endorsement of the ICU library. It has been >> around a long time (originally developed by Taligent) and it provides the >> base unicode capabilities for an awful lot of software. >> >> I think it would make more sense to bring icu into Smalltalk as a >> NativeBoost library than to spend resources reimplementing and maintaining >> it. >> >> -Todd Blanchard > > ICU already seems to be available for Smalltalk accessed through wrappers > > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6234 > > --Hannes > >>> On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:20, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs(a)gemtalksystems.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 12/07/2015 11:31 PM, H. Hirzel wrote: >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> Thank you for your answer with links to the ICU library and the notes >>>> about classes in Gemstone. Noteworthy that you have a class Utf8 as a >>>> subclass of ByteArray. >>>> >>>> I understand that Gemstone uses the ICU library and thus does not >>>> implement the algorithms in Smalltalk. >>>> >>>> I am currently looking into what the ICU library provides. >> >>

Dec. 9, 2015

Re: [Pharo-dev] How does Nautilus change highlighting for class definitions

by Skip Lentz

> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> 2015-12-09 14:45 GMT+01:00 Skip Lentz <skip.lentz(a)inria.fr>: >> >> But beware, there are multiple parts involved if you use nautilus code >> pane. >> - parser for syntax highlighting >> - the styler itself >> - completion ( you may or may not want to have NEC to popup the completion >> menu) >> - class / method selection dependent menu entries (Suggestions for example) >> - the acceptor (on accept, a class definition is execute, a method >> definition is compiled) > > > thanks to both. > > >> what are ini-modules? > > > it's a tentative replacement for class-side instance creation methods that suffer > from a lot of problems. It's a new concept, just like traits and slots, > except that it solves the instance creation problems listed at the end > of > > http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~MarcoNaddeo/IniModules <http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~MarcoNaddeo/IniModules> Looks nice, will the UI you are creating show some special way of displaying/editing them? Or is it just to be able to see a list of ini-modules in the browser and edit them in ordinary syntax? > Thanks again > > -- > Damien Cassou > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st > > "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without > losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill >

Dec. 9, 2015