Hi again! :)
so here goes, I'm new here and quite new to the language. I had
several attempts to port some of my code to factor and stumbled upon
several issues:
1) there appears to be a total lack of general documentation on most topics.
2) examples do not cover all the issues/sections of the
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
The current build of factor requires SSE3 which my current box does
not have so I tried to botstrap the image and it broke, apparantly for
the same reason :)
No, the reason bootstrap failed is because your boot
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote:
1) there appears to be a total lack of general documentation on most topics.
What do you define as general documentation? Most of the language and
library is documented. You can browse documentation in the Factor UI
or
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
The current build of factor requires SSE3 which my current box does
not have so I tried to botstrap the image and it broke, apparantly for
the same reason :)
For what its worth, the latest binaries now only
my bad :)
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:50, Slava Pestov sl...@factorcode.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
The current build of factor requires SSE3 which my current box does
not have so I tried to botstrap the image and it broke,
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:51, Slava Pestov sl...@factorcode.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote:
1) there appears to be a total lack of general documentation on most topics.
What do you define as general documentation? Most of the language and
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:54, Slava Pestov sl...@factorcode.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
The current build of factor requires SSE3 which my current box does
not have so I tried to botstrap the image and it broke, apparantly for
Hi Slava,
More vm cleanup:
http://github.com/phildawes/factor/commits/vm_cleanup
aa71248 made inline_gc a VM_C_API function
c0957ed compiler.codegen passes temp reg to %call-gc
baa41f4 removed param-reg-* HOOKs
f9e736c isolated %vm-invoke-blah-arg to 64.factor
5b404aa moved %(un)nest-stacks out
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Phil Dawes p...@phildawes.net wrote:
More vm cleanup:
http://github.com/phildawes/factor/commits/vm_cleanup
Good stuff.
Can you also take a look at the indentation of void init_platform_globals() ?
Also, I found a regression.
This used to throw an 'undefined
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote:
so, as a relatively typical newcomer to the language I'll be stumbling
on typical common pitfalls, IMHO, it would be useful to fix them, so,
I'm offering to:
1) document my journey and learning process and
2) writeup
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Chris Double chris.dou...@double.co.nz wrote:
I think what's needed, and what a lot of people have asked for, is
more cookbook style documentation and tutorials. Quick examples of how
to do small talks. Most of this type of stuff is in peoples blog
posts.
Phil,
I fixed the undefined_symbol issue, so don't worry about it.
Slava
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Also, all the documentation is not automatically loaded when you're
browsing help in the listener. I had problem with this when I wanted
to know about factor's regular expressions : if you type regular
expressions with a normal factor image in the help browser, you don't
get any results (regexp
already stumbled on this :)
her's another thing, I think the whole documentation block would
benefit from an always loaded index, it would not be as big as the
whole thing in memory but would significantly speedup searches and
expand its context, not to mention minor features like completion
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