A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén. The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet. Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We …
Category Archives: Io
Look, Ma! (linked Io glimpse)
The Io blog points to a ramshackle example Io thing authored by me and quag. If you’ve heard about Io, and wonder what it looks like, this is a… very small example. (I didn’t know they’d gone and published it, and it turned up in my newsreader. Now I have to improve it. Gosh, the …
Io on OS X: Get a fixed libsgml
libsgml.zip is the libsgml library with a slightly modified build sequence, to accomodate the Mac OS X need for .dylib instead of .so files. I learnt a bit on making Makefile.in and configure.in do my bidding, but don’t do this with your spare time. Try and download this file instead. get the fixed libsgml, unpack …
Method Resolution Order in Io
Prunedtree asked the Io channel at Freenode: “How does Io avoid diamonds and cycling when finding methods in protos? Is there code to resolve loops?” Here is the answer.
Io gets Ruby-style string interpolation
This is nice for people who come to Io from Ruby: Io, the language, now has… a C implementation of interpolate (by trevor with help from jer) Just to give people a heads-up on this point. There is a slight change in behaviour. Instead of using #io{…} to interpolate your code, you now use #{…}. …
Io: setting the interactive prompt
shevegen is it possible to modify the return token ‘==>’ ? I’d like it to bear this instead ‘# =>’ or ‘# ==>’ bolsen maybe look at the CLI object? bolsen CLI outPrompt Look at that! You could edit your interactive Io prompt, to make it look like Ruby’s irb, for instance.
More Io Learning
[Io](http://www.iolanguage.com/)’s very self-documenting, at least when it comes to “what parameters does this and that take?” This is a little walk-through that gets you up and running in the interpreter. Get a binary from the downlaods page, and then come back here. There is a docs slot — with some text about what the method …
Programming language of the minute: Io
Read an article about the language [everyone is]/[someone might be] raving about: Io.