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Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

David T. Lewis — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:45:29 GMT

... It does not mean that it is sensible, nor does it say anything about whether or not it should compile. It seems to me that it is sensible to say exactly

[squeak-dev] Two new Debian slaves

Frank Shearar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:20:47 GMT

Tony Garnock-Jones has kindly volunteered two new Debian build slaves, one 64 bit and one 32 bit, to the build.squeak.org build slave family. Thanks Tony!

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Frank Shearar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:03:24 GMT

... Yes. But does that mean this this: super foo; bar is sensible and so should compile? Because the Compiler's quite clear that you may not cascade on super.

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

David T. Lewis — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:55:38 GMT

... Yes. From the blue book: "An additional pseudo-variable named super is available for use in a method's expressions. The pseudo-variable super refers to the

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Frank Shearar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:27:47 GMT

Well, I really really don't _ever_ want to see something like this: foo bar baz: super But that's just me, maybe. Maybe I should imagine super as being a

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Nicolas Cellier — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:55:58 GMT

As long as you don't write things like (self send: #someMessage to: super), there's not much possible confusion ;) Nicolas 2013/6/19 Vaidotas Didžbalis

[squeak-dev] STIC 2013 Videos

James Robertson — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:03:17 GMT

I'm posting the videos to my regular feed, and have set up a landing page here: http://www.jarober.com/blog/stic13.ssp Also on YouTube:

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Squeak on tablets

JohnReed Maffeo — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:58:07 GMT

... This is a good place to start. PharoDroid is currently not working, but CogDroid is (for me anyway).

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Vaidotas Didžbalis — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:27:04 GMT

... from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk): "... true, false, nil, self, super, and thisContext. These are actually called pseudo-variables,

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Frank Shearar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:45:08 GMT

... Right. Of course, super _isn't_ an object: it's more like "the next token is a message; send that message to myself but start the method lookup in my

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Vaidotas Didžbalis — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:27:08 GMT

2013/6/19 Frank Shearar : ... I expected the latter. I think about super as an object. Anyway, the error message "Cascading not

Re: [squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Frank Shearar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:01:52 GMT

... I replied on the ticket, but I'll replicate it here: Do you expect this to be equivalent to super initialize. self setListProperties. or to super

[squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Vaidotas Didžbalis — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:52:48 GMT

FYI, cascading does ont work with super. Compiler refuses to compile super initialize; setListProperties Vaidas

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Squeak on tablets

H. Hirzel — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:35:24 GMT

Hello John, On 6/18/13, JohnReed Maffeo wrote: ... Where did you get the CogDroid from? URL? I can run ... Great setup. The only

Re: [squeak-dev] FileSystem

H. Hirzel — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:31:01 GMT

Nice, thank you, Frank https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-ci/blob/master/package-load-scripts/FileSystem.st (Installer wiresong project: 'mc')