Self-interest October 2016

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Self Interpreter status?
by Chris Double 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

In the Self VM there's code for an interpreter if the FAST and SIC compilers are disabled at build time. What's the status of that? Did it work at some point? Trying it out on x86 shows that there's some unimplemented assembler routines, especially CallPrimitiveFromInterpreter, that prevents it from working there. I hacked together some code to do what I think it's supposed to do and built an interpreter only VM that runs primitives but it segfaults when creating blocks. I'm tracking down why this is but was curious what actual state the interpreter code got to. -- http://bluishcoder.co.nz

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primitiveMaker documentation
by Chris Double 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

A while back I did some Freetype wrappers using primitiveMaker [1]. I mentioned I'd write up some notes but didn't get to it. Some discussion in github issues about primitiveMaker reminded me to put something up: https://github.com/russellallen/self/wiki/primitiveMaker Please add to it if you can. It's currently a combination of the comments in primitiveMaker, various C++ header files and examples. [1] https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/01/08/improving-linux-font-support-in-self.h… -- http://bluishcoder.co.nz

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Building on Mac OS 10.11
by Chris Double 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

I tried building on Mac OS 10.11 and cmake complained about not having an SDK version that would work. I have SDK 10.11 but I see cmake expects 10.6-10.9. Any tips on downloading an older SDK and building with it? -- http://bluishcoder.co.nz

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Self projects and libraries
by Chris Double 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

I've added a page to the Wiki for listing projects/libraries usable from Self: https://github.com/russellallen/self/wiki/Self-Projects Please add anything you know of. -- http://bluishcoder.co.nz

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Why `os_file` named in snake-case instead of camel-case?
by Xin Wang 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hi all, I found that most name of slots in Self are spelled in snake-case, except for several global slots. e.g. ui2_textBuffer, ui2_textField, abstract_OS and os_file. Are there any reason behind? Regards, Xin Wang

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X11 event loop integration
by Chris Double 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

I've added some notes on how Self integrates with the X11 event loop in the wiki: https://github.com/russellallen/self/wiki/X11-Event-Loop They come from a discussion in this github issue: https://github.com/russellallen/self/issues/79 I haven't written about the dead ends I encountered while looking for it (the eventWatcher stuff mentioned at https://github.com/russellallen/self/issues/79#issuecomment-255560434) but will once I understand what that is for. If anyone can add to the knowledge there, please do. It'd be great to collaborate on getting some system documentation in place. Would it be worth adding this type of thing to the documentation in the Self world too (via method/object comment attributes, etc)? -- http://bluishcoder.co.nz

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unixGlobals os command:IfFail: vs. command:Executing:IfFail:
by Xin Wang 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hi all, When reading code in `objects/core/unix.self`, I can not figure out what's purpose of `command:Executing:IfFail:`. Could anyone give me a hint? Regards, Xin Wang

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Arguments of methods in "Self Online"
by Xin Wang 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hi all, In Self Online[1], arguments of methods is omitted, which seems to be inconvenient, e.g. see traits sequence page[2]. Is there any particular reason for that? BTW, Self Online is really nice, can we add a link to it in http://selflanguage.org/? [1] http://browser.russell.larrikin.org/ [2] http://browser.russell.larrikin.org/traits/sequence/ Regards, Xin Wang

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Self-interest October 2016