Re: [Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-10 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Hi Bing, Yes, any character is allowed in a Symbol. There is even special syntax that allows such Symbols to be represented literally. 'a b' asSymbol. => #'a b' Although it might be confusing, I don't see any problem. The concept of 'meaning' is defined by the user, the usage, not by the S

Re: [Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-10 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users
--- Begin Message --- It can be useful if you want to save some space in some very specific cases.  You could have a one million strings 'hello' (hence one million objects) or deal transform them into symbols and have only one #hello.  I recall a coworker telling me about this ultra-fast string

[Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-10 Thread lb
Hi, I know Symbol is subclass of String. Any string object can become symbol object by sending 'asSymbol' message.. I think symbol must has its meaning in comon use, so the symbol should be composed of alphabet or number ‘without space“. BUT There are not compliant below 1.' ' a

[Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-10 Thread lb
Hi, I know Symbol is subclass of String. Any string object can become symbol object by sending 'asSymbol' message.. I think symbol must has its meaning in comon use, so the symbol should be composed of alphabet or number ‘without space“. BUT There are not compliant below 1.' ' a

Re: [Pharo-users] Unable to find the compiler

2017-02-10 Thread Cyril Ferlicot D.
On 10/02/2017 23:58, Mark Neagu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting my first exrcise in Pharo Mooc. I just wrote the definition of > MyCounter (picture 1) and had to compile it by selecting the accept menu item > (picture 2). > Hi, You did a left click on what we call the "world" (the background of

Re: [Pharo-users] Final rush for submitting GSOC proposal - Need your help

2017-02-10 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Thanks Stephan, I have send the PR [1] to have Grafoscopio included in the GSoC proposals. Hopefully we will get accepted and we can leverage on the experience of learners already in the community, that are still students :-) (this is my last year as student in the PhD). [1] https://github.c

Re: [Pharo-users] Final rush for submitting GSOC proposal - Need your help

2017-02-10 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 10/02/17 05:45, Serge Stinckwich wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:48 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: Excellent! I will create the proposal to have it ready for tomorrow. Great, tell me when this ready. It is. See at: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-project-proposal

Re: [Pharo-users] Final rush for submitting GSOC proposal - Need your help

2017-02-10 Thread stepharong
Let us if we get accepted and we address this problem. I think that this is important to have "students" not just having to learn pharo to get started. Hi, As I said, I would like to work on Grafoscopio for the GSOC, but I lack a supervisor. I even can work on the proposal but I would need

Re: [Pharo-users] Final rush for submitting GSOC proposal - Need your help

2017-02-10 Thread Ben Coman
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: >> On 09/02/17 17:05, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >>> >>> but all the projects are coming from RMOD team, but having all the >>> projects proposal coming from the same place might be pe

Re: [Pharo-users] [Teapot and Voyage] sending over the voyageId

2017-02-10 Thread sergio ruiz
Forgot to mention, i have this on my class.. neoJsonMapping: mapper mapper for: self do: [ :mapping | mapping mapInstVars ] will dig into this a bit more today.. thanks! On February 10, 2017 at 2:04:14 AM, Norbert Hartl (norb...@hartl.name) wrote: NeoJSON is not bound to use instVars

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Object Model

2017-02-10 Thread Henrik Johansen
> On 10 Feb 2017, at 13:04 , Oleksandr Zaytsev wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to understand the logic behind The Pharo Object Model. > > Rule 3 states that every class in Pharo has a subclass. I was expecting some > cool loop, like in the case of Metaclass, which is an instance and also a

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Slack, fragmentation and design information

2017-02-10 Thread François Stephany
There is a special price for non-profits organization: > The Slack for Nonprofits program offers eligible organizations a *free upgrade* to our Standard plan for teams of up to 250 members. For eligible teams above that size, we offer an 85% discount on the Standard plan. With 322 users it means

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Slack, fragmentation and design information

2017-02-10 Thread denker
> >> I share many of what you say… but in the other point of view, Slack as >> really worked and there is a lot more happening now in Slack + mailing list >> than what was before just in mailing list. >> But most of that is lost because of Slack policies (also Slack pricing model >> is impossi

[Pharo-users] Pharo Object Model

2017-02-10 Thread Oleksandr Zaytsev
Hello, I'm trying to understand the logic behind The Pharo Object Model. Rule 3 states that every class in Pharo has a subclass. I was expecting some cool loop, like in the case of Metaclass, which is an instance and also a class of Metaclass class. But ProtoObject, which is the root of an inheri

[Pharo-users] [THIS IS A TEST FOR DISCORD FEEDS PLEASE IGNORE]

2017-02-10 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Test... test ... something test http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/turn-gmail-into-an-rss-reader-with-ifttt-1582552035

[Pharo-users] GSOC Pharo application done

2017-02-10 Thread Serge Stinckwich
Dear all, thanks to the efforts of Jigyasa Grover, Yuriy Tymchuk and Alexandre Bergel, , we were able to have a GSOC 2017 application for the Pharo Consortium. This is only the first phase. If we are selected by Google, they will give some slots for students. We have a list of projects for GSOC

Re: [Pharo-users] Final rush for submitting GSOC proposal - Need your help

2017-02-10 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > On 09/02/17 17:05, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >> >> but all the projects are coming from RMOD team, but having all the >> projects proposal coming from the same place might be perceived >> negatively from Google. Can we add more projects from

Re: [Pharo-users] Final rush for submitting GSOC proposal - Need your help

2017-02-10 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:48 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > Excellent! I will create the proposal to have it ready for tomorrow. Great, tell me when this ready. > Jupyter support could be nice, but I would think is some kind of ZeroMQ > support really. That would enable multiple ker

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Slack, fragmentation and design information

2017-02-10 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
> On 10 Feb 2017, at 11:28, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Esteban Lorenzano > wrote: >> Hi Stephan, >> >>> On 10 Feb 2017, at 10:27, Stephan Eggermont wrote: >>> >>> The past year we have started using Slack to communicate in real-time about >>> Pharo. It ha

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Slack, fragmentation and design information

2017-02-10 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > Hi Stephan, > >> On 10 Feb 2017, at 10:27, Stephan Eggermont wrote: >> >> The past year we have started using Slack to communicate in real-time about >> Pharo. It has nice (mobile) clients and makes it easy to share pictures and >> sn

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] Slack, fragmentation and design information

2017-02-10 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hi Stephan, > On 10 Feb 2017, at 10:27, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > > The past year we have started using Slack to communicate in real-time about > Pharo. It has nice (mobile) clients and makes it easy to share pictures and > snippets. As a result a large part of the communication about design