+1 BTW we should start looking for an location for PharoDays 2018 :)
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > This turned into a much more interesting thread than I expected (gosh you > learn lots of stuff by reading comments). > > But I am impressed that Feenk listened to what people were saying, distilled > it down and didn’t take their ball home - thanks guys. > > Sometimes in all of these slightly robust conversations I have to keep > thinking back to when I went to Pharo days, and how cool it was to see the > wonderful things people had produced. It was inspiring…. > > We have to hold onto that and keep moving the boundaries further without > getting disillusioned or blocked. > > I’m looking forward to the next Pharo Days where hopefully some of this stuff > will be reality. > > Tim > > >> On 26 Oct 2017, at 16:45, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks everyone for the nice discussion. >> >> So, after all arguments, we will remove Number>>, from Bloc. >> >> I think using Number>>, for vector creation makes quite some sense. However, >> we have already seen that we have a few places where we have vectors: Bloc, >> PolyMath and Moose-Algos. The Bloc needs are smaller than the needs from >> PolyMath (we need only a limited set of abilities). So, until we have one >> consensus of having one vector in the image, we can leave room for playing. >> >> In the meantime we have: >> >> 1. >> BlVector x: 10 y: 20 >> BlVector x: 10 y: 20 z: 30 >> >> or: >> >> 2. >> (10@20) asBlocVector >> (10@20@30) asBlocVector >> >> The 2nd option reads ok, but it has the downside that it needs an extra >> object (the point). >> >> An interesting thing about Number>>@ is that it is backed by a primitive. >> This can be quite relevant and I think it would be worthwhile thinking about >> vector/matrix specific optimizations as well. That is why, in the future, it >> would be interesting to consider primitives for vector/matrix creation. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >>> On Oct 26, 2017, at 5:10 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote: >>> >>> Tudor Girba-2 wrote >>>> You mean like sending @ to a number, right? :) >>> >>> Ha ha, you got me ;) >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Cheers, >>> Sean >>> -- >>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html >>> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> www.feenk.com >> >> "Not knowing how to do something is not an argument for how it cannot be >> done." >> >> > >
