September 2016 - Pharo-users

Get implementors list window from Spotter
by Esteban A. Maringolo Oct. 3, 2016

Oct. 3, 2016

Hi, How can I open the implementors list from Spotter? I want to browse through the code of the different implementors as I do by selecting a selector and searching an implementor (or Ctr+M). Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo

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Amazon drive API's for Pharo ?
by CÃ©drick BÃ©ler Oct. 2, 2016

Oct. 2, 2016

Hi all, Iâve just seen that the unlimited offer that Amazon proposes for its drive is now available in France. !! Itâs 70â¬/year so quite cheapâ¦ Do people know if there are pharo packages to uses its RESTful API ? https://developer.amazon.com/public/apis/experience/cloud-drive/content/res… TIA (Iâll investigate deeper shortly), CÃ©drik

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pillar: how to link to different parts?
by Tudor Girba Sept. 30, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

Hi, I am playing with Pillar, and I am now would like to link different chapters to one another. For example, in the old Pier book support, we could write something like: *ref:../anotherchapter/section* and this would result in a rendering like: Section 15.3 (with a link) Is there a support already in place for this in Pillar? Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Every successful trip needs a suitable vehicle."

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Slides online: "Perfection & Feedback Loops" talk from esug
by Marcus Denker Sept. 30, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

Hi, At ESUG last Friday I gave a talk "Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is betterâ, I was asked for the slides. They are now online: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/perfection-feedback-loops-or-why-wor… As the slides do not contain much (just headlines), I created a special âAnnotatedâ version with links and some comments so one can follow better: http://marcusdenker.de/talks/16ESUG/FeedbackLoopsAnnotated.pdf PDF and .key file are there, too: http://marcusdenker.de/talks/16ESUG/ (the .key file contains the embedded videos shown). A video of the presentation should be available soon. Marcus

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Speeding-up >>#instVarNamed: in Pharo-5.0 and beyond?
by Holger Freyther Sept. 30, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

Hi, Magritte and my TagLengthValue (TLV) both use >>#instVarNamed:/>>#instVarNamed:put: to read and write from an object. I was just running >>#bench on my SMPP library and noticed that besides Spur Pharo5 is slower than Pharo3. I added this to PointerLayout: >># instVarIndexFor: aString ifAbsent: aBlockClosure | idx | idx := 1. slotScope do: [:each | each isVisible ifTrue: [ each name = aString ifTrue: [^idx]. idx := idx +1]]. ^aBlockClosure value and modified ClassDescription/TClassDescription to use it: "protocol: instance variables" instVarIndexFor: instVarName ifAbsent: aBlock "Answer the index of the named instance variable." | index | index := self classLayout instVarIndexFor: instVarName ifAbsent: [0]. index = 0 ifTrue: [^self superclass == nil ifTrue: [aBlock value] ifFalse: [self superclass instVarIndexFor: instVarName ifAbsent: aBlock]]. ^self superclass == nil ifTrue: [index] ifFalse: [index + self superclass instSize] The speed-up comes from filtering allSlots to allVisibleSlots (and creating an Array), then collecting the slot names and finally searching the name. Does it make sense to integrate such speed-ups? cheers holger

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PhyloclassTalk Demo Video
by HernÃ¡n Morales Durand Sept. 29, 2016

Sept. 29, 2016

I want to share with you a video I did just yesterday (no audio yet) of the PhyloclassTalk application: https://youtu.be/1iPbDHbjbLU As some of you may know, I work in a research institute, so the workflow is very specific to phylogeography and bioinformatics. But I hope you may find it useful as a showcase for Pharo, or to grab some ideas. It took some years to get here. It also uses code many of you wrote, so you can say Hi! if you recognize your source there :) Here is the web site for documentation and details: http://phyloclasstalk.github.io/ I would love to read your recommendations, or comments. Cheers, HernÃ¡n

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turning a collection (interval for example) into a stream
by stepharo Sept. 29, 2016

Sept. 29, 2016

Hi I was looking at how we can turn a collection into a stream. I played with g := Generator on: [ :gen | | current | current := 0. [ gen yield: (current := current + 1) ] repeat ]. g next. and now imagine that we have (1 to: 1000) collect: [:each | {each -1 . each . each + 1}]. I was wondering how we could turn it into a stream (1 to: 1000) asStream collect: [:each | {each -1 . each . each + 1}]. and what would be the asStream method. for index based I can see that next next is something like next ^ self at: (current := current + 1) and collect: could be rewritten to use a generator. Now does anybody play with this already? Does xtream provide a way to do something in the same vein? We can have a stream of blocks. Stef

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Subscript Out Of Bounds: 1 when commiting from Versionner
by HernÃ¡n Morales Durand Sept. 29, 2016

Sept. 29, 2016

When commiting with Versionner in Pharo 5.0 I always have to manually override this method KomitStagingArea>>remotes | result | result := self packages first remotes. self packages allButFirst do: [ :each | result := result intersection: each remotes ]. ^ result collect: [ :each | each koRemote ] to KomitStagingArea>>remotes self packages isEmpty ifFalse: [ | result | result := self packages first remotes. self packages allButFirst do: [ :each | result := result intersection: each remotes ]. ^ result collect: [ :each | each koRemote ] ]. ^ Array empty. Screenshot attached. Is this known issue or was this reported before? Hernan

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trying to run Pier3 in Pharo6 with latest Pillar
by Peter H. Meadows Sept. 28, 2016

Sept. 28, 2016

Am I right that PRDocumentDescription>>parserClass should be PRPillarParserMain instead of PRDocumentParser ?

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SPLASH'16 Amsterdam CFP: early registration ends Sept 30
by Tijs van der Storm Sept. 28, 2016

Sept. 28, 2016

################################################# ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) ################################################# Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org https://twitter.com/splashcon https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon/ ** REGISTRATION ** 30 September 2016 (Early Deadline) Contact: info(a)splashcon.org http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/registration # What's happening at SPLASH? ## Keynotes - Benjamin Pierce (SPLASH) The Science of Deep Specification - Andy Ko (SPLASH) A Human View of Programming Languages - Martin Odersky (SPLASH) - Guy Steele Jr. (SPLASH-I) - Robby Findler (SLE) Redex: Lightweight Semantics Engineering - Tiark Rompf (GPCE) Lightweight Modular Staging: Generate all the things! - Simon Peyton Jones (SPLASH-I/E) The dream of a lifetime: shaping how our children learn computing - Laurence Tratt (Scala) Fine-grained language composition without a common VM - Jan Vitek (Scala) This is not a Type: Gradual typing in practice ## Workshop Keynotes - Andrew Black (NOOL) The Essence of Inheritance - Alan Blackwell (PLATEAU) How to Design a Programming Language - Felienne Hermans (DSLDI) Small, simple and smelly: What we can learn from examining end-user artifacts? - Ivano Malavolta (Mobile!) 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