http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1556 <pre>Check &lt;a href="http://mercuryweb.pl/"&gt;mercuryweb&lt;/a&gt; for best positioning and optimization of Internet sites </pre> Genia 2011-12-06T16:15:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1555 <pre> Since I've been so publicity-shy the last few years, it must seem like Slate is dormant, but I'll try to dispel such impressions soon and start with some status updates. Slate is (for purposes of overview) a self-hosted dynamic object-oriented language with prototypes, multi-method dispatch, and a variety of other strong features described at http://www.slatelanguage.org. VM/platform-side: The SSA VM is still supporting Slate's run-time well. We've not been regularly updating the 64-bit port of Slate but that is simply due to contraction of build supports (basically, I stick with 32-bit modes out of convenience and we don't have a regular user insisting on 64-bit usage). Other than that, Slate's runtime has remained very portable and stable. Language: * Rest-parameters, allowing methods/blocks to receive an arbitrary number of non-dispatching input values (without grouping them in Array arguments), were made possible using sequestering of the comma character from binary selectors. * Assignment notatio</pre> Brian T. Rice 2011-01-03T21:46:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1554 <pre> On Mar 13, 11:37 am, Rayne Simpson &lt;disciplera...&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: if you want to get a list of methods using a particular object, for example, a string, you could do this: 'hi' methodsUsingMe. If you want to see something defined on just "String traits" you could do: String traits roles collect: #selector `er. and then: slate[52]&gt; (#escaped findOn: {''}) method definitionLocation. 'src/core/string.slate:322' slate[53]&gt; (#escaped findOn: {''}) method sourceTree. s&lt; at &gt;(String traits) escaped [ "(snipped)" ]. you could also browse the src/lib and src/core directories for basic stuff. </pre> Timmy Douglas 2010-03-13T20:51:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1553 <pre>Okay. One last final thing (for real this time ;)): Is there any sort of API documentation for Slate? If progman is outdated, what should one use to find what they're looking for? </pre> Rayne Simpson 2010-03-13T16:37:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1552 <pre> On Mar 13, 10:46 am, Rayne Simpson &lt;disciplera...&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: You could give them your image, a VM, and any necessary DLLs. </pre> Timmy Douglas 2010-03-13T16:33:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1551 <pre>Alright, thanks. One more thing: what is the preferred way to distribute a Slate application, presumably on Linux? </pre> Rayne Simpson 2010-03-13T15:46:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1550 <pre> On Mar 12, 11:26 pm, Rayne &lt;disciplera...&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: well progman is probably out of date anyways, you might want to try rosettacode for a more gentle introduction. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Slate The slate vm runs the image similar to how the OS runs the vm (or any executable). The slate image contains all slate code and objects. Put your code into files as you would with any language and load it into the slate image to test. like a bash script except with #!/path/to/slate at the top. </pre> Timmy Douglas 2010-03-13T15:30:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1549 <pre>I git pulled this straight from the github repo, and I'm not a Latex or lyx guy, so I'm not sure what's wrong here. rayne&lt; at &gt;rayne-desktop:~/slate-language/doc$ make progman.pdf lyx -e pdf progman.lyx progman.pdf unusual contents found: [char " mathalpha][char g mathalpha][char o mathalpha][char l mathalpha][char d mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char + mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i mathalpha] [char s mathalpha][char h mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char = mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char g mathalpha][char o mathalpha][char l mathalpha][char d mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i mathalpha] [char s mathalpha][char h mathalpha][char " mathalpha] unusual contents found: [char " mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i mathalpha][char s mathalpha][char h mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char + mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char g mathalpha][char o mathalpha] [char l mathalpha][char d mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char = mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i mathalpha][char s mathalpha][cha</pre> Rayne 2010-03-13T04:26:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1548 <pre>We've been in lurk mode for the last few months, but progress continues. Here are some highlights: - The VM was ported from C to C++, allowing some smarter handling by the VM of Slate pointers, which means that our GC is now precise instead of just conservative. - Syntactic support for *rest parameter passing in message sends was added, by sequestering the comma (",") as special syntax which goes after optional keywords and the main message phrase. Now, collections can be instantiated via, say, "Set new*, 1, 2, 3, 3", for example. The "," selector for creating Points is now named "&lt;&gt;" to avoid collision. - Various inefficiency fixes which each resulted in a 10-15% speed gain were implemented. The VM is now substantially faster than a few months ago. - A simple inliner (not a JIT) which uses simple type inference to inline bytecode methods to produce inlined versions of the original method has been implemented. It is not yet robust enough for production use; we're still tracking down a bug that rears its head</pre> Brian T. Rice 2010-02-02T20:42:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.slate.general/1547 <pre> I gave my first Slate presentation in a few years at the local Smalltalk user group, PDX.st. This is a very preliminary slide deck, mostly telling the broad story of Slate rather than enumerating features in detail. I talked around it, and introduced features via full-screen Emacs mode. I intend to expand on this quite a bit, for the purpose of presenting to local Rubyists, Pythonistas, Perl mongers, etc. And of course I'm still coding in various ways on it. I think Portland has done me a lot of good in that area. Anyway, let me know what you think: http://files.slatelanguage.org/PDXst2009.pdf -- http://BrianTRice.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "slate-language" group. 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