Re: [Factor-talk] documentation, examples and help...

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Double
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jon Harper jon.harpe...@gmail.com wrote: A workaround to this problem is to use factor's online documentation docs.factorcode.org, which has all the vocabularies loaded.But this requires an Internet connection and the factor ui looks better. Another workaround

Re: [Factor-talk] documentation, examples and help...

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Double
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, still on the documentation topic, a type/object registry or tagging of entities in the library/docs would also be a boost in productivity.right now, it is simpler to find a correct interface/protocol than a

Re: [Factor-talk] windows build compatability...

2009-09-26 Thread Ted Neward
While we're on the subject Just pulled down the factor bits from git, and had a problem running the boot image--it fails in the basis/debugger section. Being the complete n00b to Factor, I have really no idea what's causing it. Comparing it against the same files from the binary drop, it

Re: [Factor-talk] documentation, examples and help...

2009-09-26 Thread Alex A. Naanou
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:26, Chris Double chris.dou...@double.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Alex A. Naanou alex.na...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, still on the documentation topic, a type/object registry or tagging of entities in the library/docs would also be a boost in

Re: [Factor-talk] documentation, examples and help...

2009-09-26 Thread Alex A. Naanou
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 17:11, Keith Lazuka klaz...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, I think the documentation is more than sufficient. I only started working with Factor at the beginning of this month and had no prior experience with a stack-based language. Less than a month later, I am

Re: [Factor-talk] documentation, examples and help...

2009-09-26 Thread Keith Lazuka
For what it's worth, I think the documentation is more than sufficient. I only started working with Factor at the beginning of this month and had no prior experience with a stack-based language. Less than a month later, I am able to contribute improvements and new features. Documentation can only

Re: [Factor-talk] windows build compatability...

2009-09-26 Thread Slava Pestov
Make sure you have the latest sources and the latest boot image, and try again. On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Ted Neward t...@tedneward.com wrote: While we're on the subject Just pulled down the factor bits from git, and had a problem running the boot image--it fails in the

[Factor-talk] sequences.extra

2009-09-26 Thread Sam Anklesaria
Dan, I've made the cleanups you suggested to sequences.extras and combined them with the core sequences vocab. The reduce* word, by the way, only exists to give normal reduce a static stack effect. My git repo*, however, also contains some larger changes to the UI framework: I've replaced the

Re: [Factor-talk] documentation, examples and help...

2009-09-26 Thread Emeka
Keith, You are a special case, I have been here for about three months and I am still confused. I can't tell my left from my right! I may say that the fault is mine, because I have not given Factor my time . I have tried other strange languages in the past and I must say that I had the same

Re: [Factor-talk] documentation, examples and help...

2009-09-26 Thread Hugh Aguilar
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[Factor-talk] GIF decode - code review / pull request

2009-09-26 Thread Keith Lazuka
Hi everyone, I finished GIF decode support in my gif branch (http://github.com/klazuka/factor/tree/gif). Could someone please review the code and merge it in if it is acceptable? I'm especially interested to get feedback regarding code style. I should also note that no effort at optimization has

Re: [Factor-talk] Proposed change to ##slot and ##set-slot instructions

2009-09-26 Thread Slava Pestov
Hi Dan, The changes look good. I've merged them in. Slava On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Daniel Ehrenberg micro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, It looks like, the way the compiler is right now, ##slot and ##set-slot are more complicated than they have to be. These instructions do two

Re: [Factor-talk] GIF decode - code review / pull request

2009-09-26 Thread Joe Groff
On Sep 26, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Keith Lazuka wrote: Joe, a few of the definition icons did not convert well to GIF. It seems like there is something weird about the original TIFFs since when I load the TIFF into Photoshop, it doesn't look correct. Can you please send me the vector originals so

Re: [Factor-talk] GIF decode - code review / pull request

2009-09-26 Thread Slava Pestov
Hi Keith, The code changes look good, except for some stray debug messages in this patch: http://github.com/klazuka/factor/commit/81ea3afbdc536e9ead1368af8d8a2e5ef7a98a0d Look at 'handle-clear-code' and 'kdebug'. However, I won't merge them until you fix the definition icons; you mention that

Re: [Factor-talk] Is anyone maintaining/using alien.inline, alien.marshall, alien.cxx?

2009-09-26 Thread Joe Groff
On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Jeremy Hughes wrote: Hi everyone. Slava's itching to nuke the old C-STRUCT: and C-UNION: features now that most of the code in the repository has been switched to use struct classes. The only holdouts are Jeremy Hughes' alien.inline, alien.marshall, and alien.cxx

[Factor-talk] alien.structs (including C-STRUCT: and C-UNION:) are going away

2009-09-26 Thread Joe Groff
Hi everybody. All the code in the repository has been updated to use the new struct classes, so Slava's decreed that the old alien.structs mechanism shall now be gone. Brace yourselves. -Joe -- Come build with us!

Re: [Factor-talk] list

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Double
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Hugh Aguilar hugoagui...@rosycrew.com wrote: None of the spliting functions take an index however. All of them are splitting on a particular subsequence. I think you want 'cut' or 'cut*'. This is in the Subsequences and Slices part of the help. Chris. --

Re: [Factor-talk] list

2009-09-26 Thread Slava Pestov
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Hugh Aguilar hugoagui...@rosycrew.com wrote: For example, I want to find a node in the list and split the list into two lists at that point. With sequences, the function find returns an index into the sequence. None of the spliting functions take an index