[Pharo-users] Is there a reason for the removal of Promises?

2024-02-29 Thread donald . bryant . rich
Hi. I was hoping to use the Promise class as documented in the book on ”Concurrent Programming in Pharo” but it appears that they are not present in the latest version. Instead there is a TKTPromise class that has no slots or methods. Is there a reason for not having the Promise class before

Re: [Pharo-users] Floating point arithmetic

2020-01-15 Thread Donald Howard
gt; > > *14 January 2020 03:05 Pierce Ng > wrote:* > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Donald Howard wrote: > > "What are other suggestions, workarounds or approaches community has?" > > This is a good read on the subject: > > https://docs.or

[Pharo-users] Floating point arithmetic

2020-01-12 Thread Donald Howard
Hello everyone, This is an issue I've had awareness of going way back but it's the first time I've had to personally deal with it. I've done some research and found it addressed in a number of ways but given current time pressures and a huge list of to-dos, I thought I'd turn to the community

[Pharo-users] How to do this in Pharo 2?

2013-06-29 Thread Donald
/pipermail/pharo-project/2012-July/067412.html/ It allows me to do things like this: Transcript show: 'Today is %1' bindWith: 'the first day of the rest of your life'. Is there a better way to do this in Pharo 2?. An hour of poking around and no joy. Thanks. -- Donald [|] A bad day in [] is better

Re: [Pharo-users] Remove a dependency (was Re: How to do this in Pharo 2?)

2013-06-29 Thread Donald
On 6/29/2013 7:00 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: Hi Donald, I guess there should be a ConfigurationOfLog4j (or similar name) that defines the versions, the baselines, dependencies, etc. Imagine this (similarly) as a ConfigurationMap. So I guess what you have to do is to take

Re: [Pharo-users] Log4s for Pharo

2013-06-15 Thread Donald
More info here: http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/log4s-a-logging-framework-for-smalltalk/ http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?entry=3509625595 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?entry=3520403203 -- Donald [|] A bad day in [] is better than a good day in {}

[Pharo-users] Log4s for Pharo

2013-06-12 Thread Donald
Instantiations has open sourced its Log4s logging framework under the MIT license. It runs on Pharo 2. http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/Log4s.html/Wiki -- Donald [|] A bad day in [] is better than a good day in {}