This pastie holds my first C patch. It actually repaired a Readline problem that appeared on my Mac when I git pull‘d Io’s source today. See the Io issue at their bugtracker. The pgsql heroes fixed the problem way before, so I could stand on the shoulders of smart giants. I don’t know how to …
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WideFinder in Io: it’s now too late
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 …
IoPython, raw but cool
I nosed around in Io’s “addons” folder, which you also can pull from the Git repository, see the Io homepage. Update: of course, this was reported when it was fresh, with nice examples, too: pinupgeek’s blog is full of Io goodness. (Thanks, trevor!) While nosing, I met the Python module, which lets you run Python …
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 …
Go read this Intro to Io
If you are interested in the Io language, go read Getting to know Io, by Bruce. He is a Rails programmer who’s also an “Io tourist”, and this gentle intro to how Io works is fine for whetting your appetite. Go!
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 …