Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo by example 5.0 is officially released and available

2017-03-10 Thread Tudor Girba
Great work! Doru > On Mar 10, 2017, at 8:54 PM, stepharong wrote: > > Hi > > After several iterations and some month of efforts, the new version of Pharo > by Example is finally available in print form and pdf. > >http://books.pharo.org > > > Tx all the

Re: [Pharo-users] Easy question about syntax.

2017-03-10 Thread Jupiter Jones
Also, you’re not setting the instance variable - just returning an OrderedCollection - is that what you want to do? e.g. setting the trees instance variable: trees ^ trees ifNil: [ trees := OrderedCollection new ] like Bernardo said, when you call #trees from within the #trees method (with

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Mini Pharo -> JavaScript translator?

2017-03-10 Thread H. Hirzel
On 3/10/17, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a simple way to translate Pharo code into Javascript? > There is Pharo JS, but I cannot load it in Pharo 6. There is the amber > compiler, but I cannot find a version for Pharo. > > Amber takes the approach of

Re: [Pharo-users] Easy question about syntax.

2017-03-10 Thread Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras
i think that in the first case you access an instance variable trees while in the second case you send a message trees to self that cause an infinite recursion. am i right? On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:57 AM, sergio ruiz wrote: > I have a simple one, but i need to

[Pharo-users] Easy question about syntax.

2017-03-10 Thread sergio ruiz
I have a simple one, but i need to understand what is going on.. i have something like Tree with a class method trees ^ trees ifNil: [OrderedCollection new] i initially ran into trouble with it locking my image up because i wrote it as: trees ^ self trees ifNil: [OrderedCollection new] what

[Pharo-users] Mini Pharo -> JavaScript translator?

2017-03-10 Thread Alexandre Bergel
Hi! Is there a simple way to translate Pharo code into Javascript? There is Pharo JS, but I cannot load it in Pharo 6. There is the amber compiler, but I cannot find a version for Pharo. Amber takes the approach of translating everything into JavaScript, including the Smalltalk object model.

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo by example 5.0 is officially released and available

2017-03-10 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Very nice, much needed, much appreciated. PS: Why no html (yet) ? HTML chapters make it easy to show people where to look. > On 10 Mar 2017, at 20:54, stepharong wrote: > > Hi > > After several iterations and some month of efforts, the new version of Pharo > by Example is

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo by example 5.0 is officially released and available

2017-03-10 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Awesome ;) On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 at 21:55, stepharong wrote: > Hi > > After several iterations and some month of efforts, the new version of > Pharo by Example is finally available in print form and pdf. > > http://books.pharo.org > > > Tx all the contributors. > > --

Re: [Pharo-users] New Version of Pillar on Windows

2017-03-10 Thread mldavis
Thank you for the quick response. From what you told me and what I have seen so far, it will most likely work. I will have it tested and get back to you by Monday. I'm rather swamped today. I would like to add a comment about this, that ties into another thread with a comment by Peter: "I

[Pharo-users] Pharo by example 5.0 is officially released and available

2017-03-10 Thread stepharong
Hi After several iterations and some month of efforts, the new version of Pharo by Example is finally available in print form and pdf. http://books.pharo.org Tx all the contributors. --

[Pharo-users] Pharo Association event listing updated

2017-03-10 Thread Marcus Denker
Hi, I added all events (tech talks, sprints, pharodays) that will happen till June here: https://association.pharo.org/events Marcus

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the craziest bug you ever face

2017-03-10 Thread werner kassens
and occasionally memory leaks werner On 03/10/2017 04:02 PM, werner kassens wrote: Hi Stephane, bugs i found difficult to debug are eg (1) red cross of death bugs in morphs, (2) bugs that are not visible any more because they are caught and dealt with in the wrong place and then produce wrong

Re: [Pharo-users] What is the craziest bug you ever face

2017-03-10 Thread werner kassens
Hi Stephane, bugs i found difficult to debug are eg (1) red cross of death bugs in morphs, (2) bugs that are not visible any more because they are caught and dealt with in the wrong place and then produce wrong results instead of errors, and (3) bugs in iterative algos that work eg with #while