Re: a little more FLEXibility (was: [fonc] Re: Ceres and Oberon)

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Haupt
Hi Jecel, Am 02.09.2011 um 20:51 schrieb Jecel Assumpcao Jr.: Michael, your solution is a little more indirect than dragging arrows in Self since you have to create a global, which is what I would like to avoid. ah, but instead of Smalltalk #at:put: you can use any object member's setter.

[fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility

2011-09-05 Thread BGB
On 9/4/2011 11:38 PM, Michael Haupt wrote: Hi Jecel, Am 02.09.2011 um 20:51 schrieb Jecel Assumpcao Jr.: Michael, your solution is a little more indirect than dragging arrows in Self since you have to create a global, which is what I would like to avoid. ah, but instead of Smalltalk

Re: a little more FLEXibility (was: [fonc] Re: Ceres and Oberon)

2011-09-05 Thread Francisco Garau
If you had the MorphicWrappers package, the use case becomes very easy: 1- type in the air 'EllipseMorph new' to add the new morph to the world 2- put the mouse over the Ellipse morph and send messages directly to it (eg: 'self color: Color blue). Actually, you don't even need to type 'self' as

Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility

2011-09-05 Thread Murat Girgin
*not sure if this is relevant:* * * *one nifty feature I recently noticed which exists in SQL Server Management Studio was the ability to select things, hit a key, and evaluate only the selected code.* * * *this seemed to combine some of the merits of entry in a text editor, with those of

Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility

2011-09-05 Thread Alan Kay
I hate to be the one to bring this up, but this has always been a feature of all the Smalltalks ... one has to ask, what is there about current general practice that makes this at all remarkable? ... Cheers, Alan From: Murat Girgin gir...@gmail.com To:

Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility

2011-09-05 Thread Wesley Smith
There are also a number of live coding editors that do this for environments like SuperCollider and Fluxus http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/ http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ It has always bugged me that more coding environments don't support this, but some languages don't lend themselves to

Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility

2011-09-05 Thread BGB
On 9/5/2011 11:55 AM, Alan Kay wrote: I hate to be the one to bring this up, but this has always been a feature of all the Smalltalks ... one has to ask, what is there about current general practice that makes this at all remarkable? ... Cheers, Alan maybe because it is sufficiently

Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility

2011-09-05 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
Alan, I hate to be the one to bring this up, but this has always been a feature of all the Smalltalks ... I was going to say that this was introduced in 1976 and that the first two version of Smalltalk had a more traditional REPL. But I would have to check since I might be remembering it