[Pharo-users] Use of -> in Pharo Code

2016-11-30 Thread Bruce Prior
Thanks for the explanation, Sebastian. It led me to look into associations and dictionaries, which led me to page 190 in /Pharo By Example/. The character, ->, is there used in examples. It is described as a message (I assume a binary message). I found -> also in the index under Object. Thanks

Re: [Pharo-users] Use of -> in Pharo Code

2016-11-30 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Bruce Prior wrote: > don't understand what the right-arrow (->) does. hi Bruce, Its a message. Select it and hit to view its implementation. cheers -ben

Re: [Pharo-users] Use of -> in Pharo Code

2016-11-30 Thread Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- Hi Bruce, in hsort again ;-) This was your code: Teapot on GET: '/welcome' -> 'Hello World!'; start. Imagine it this way with brackets: Teapot on GET: ('/welcome' -> 'Hello World!'); start. This is the same as writing: Teapot on GET: ( Associtation key: '/welcome'

Re: [Pharo-users] UDBCSQLite and the location of the sqlite3 binary

2016-11-30 Thread Pierce Ng
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:48:42AM -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > So, I'm wondering for a better way to make the > path to the sqlite binary not hard coded into UDBCSQLite3 and > creating some #library: setter that lets the user to setup the > sqlite3 location if the file on

Re: [Pharo-users] Use of -> in Pharo Code

2016-11-30 Thread Bruce Prior
Hi Stef, Thanks for the welcome back. I always have fun with Smalltalk in the Winter but each year Summer seems to get in the way. I appreciate your reminiscences, but I still don't understand what the right aero (->) does. Bruce On 2016-11-30 12:21 PM, stepharo wrote: Hi bruce welcome

Re: [Pharo-users] money & currency library

2016-11-30 Thread Pierce Ng
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 04:50:32AM -0800, Sabine Manaa wrote: > http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/Money/ Wrote a blog post: http://www.samadhiweb.com/blog/2016.08.28.money.html I'll quote the last bit from Kent Beck, "Re: Money in particular, I have implemented this one five times. The

Re: [Pharo-users] BioSmalltalk win ...almost

2016-11-30 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
Hi Serge, I didn't knew that paper. You are right, in the community analysis they seem to compare Bio* projects against Pharo and not BioSmalltalk. That's weird because the paper is very clear about BioSmalltalk is the name of the library and Pharo is the supporting platform. I will contact the

Re: [Pharo-users] BioSmalltalk win ...almost

2016-11-30 Thread stepharo
:) This is supercool to see BioSmalltalk being mentioned and analysed. May be hernan should contact the authors. Hi Hernan, apparently BioSmalltalk is the faster in the field of Bio* platforms (BioPerl, BioPython, BioJava, ...) and the more trendy:

Re: [Pharo-users] money & currency library

2016-11-30 Thread stepharo
If I remember aconcagua (or the unit part of it) got one too Hi, I am looking for a money & currency library in Pharo. Can anyone point me to one? I remember seeing a nice one, but the name escapes me. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "What is more important: To be

[Pharo-users] Why join the Pharo Association?

2016-11-30 Thread Marcus Denker
Hi, I added a page to explain the benefits for joining the Pharo Association. Have a look: https://association.pharo.org/Benefits Marcus

Re: [Pharo-users] money & currency library

2016-11-30 Thread Denis Kudriashov
Maybe Units has money too http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~MarcusDenker/Units 2016-11-30 13:56 GMT+01:00 Tudor Girba : > Hi, > > I am looking for a money & currency library in Pharo. Can anyone point me > to one? > > I remember seeing a nice one, but the name escapes me. > >

[Pharo-users] BioSmalltalk win ...almost

2016-11-30 Thread Serge Stinckwich
Hi Hernan, apparently BioSmalltalk is the faster in the field of Bio* platforms (BioPerl, BioPython, BioJava, ...) and the more trendy: http://www.ijcseonline.org/spl_pub_paper/PID%2023.pdf I would love to believe in that ;-) But if you read carefully the paper, you will found that authors has

Re: [Pharo-users] money & currency library

2016-11-30 Thread Sabine Manaa
http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/Money/ Tudor Girba-2 [via Smalltalk] schrieb am Mi. 30. Nov. 2016 um 13:58: > Hi, > > I am looking for a money & currency library in Pharo. Can anyone point me > to one? > > I remember seeing a nice one, but the

[Pharo-users] money & currency library

2016-11-30 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, I am looking for a money & currency library in Pharo. Can anyone point me to one? I remember seeing a nice one, but the name escapes me. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?"

Re: [Pharo-users] Use of -> in Pharo Code

2016-11-30 Thread David T. Lewis
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 09:25:18PM -0800, Martin McClure wrote: > On 11/29/2016 06:48 PM, Bruce Prior wrote: > >I have been away from smalltalk coding for a while. On returning to > >the fold, I often see the use of a right arrow in code. Is this > >something new? > > > >Today in a Teapot app