I’m on Late Night Cocoa, discussing F-Script 2.0 with Scotty of the Mac Developer Network. You can listen to us here.
Archive for October, 2008
Late Night Cocoa on F-Script
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
F-Script Discussion Group
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just created a F-Script group on Google Groups. You are invited to join and to use it for technical questions or discussions about F-Script and related subjects. This is also the place where you can get notified of the latest releases.
You can access the group at http://groups.google.com/group/f-script
A New Conference for Mac Developers: MacDev 2009 Announced
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One day of workshops and a two days conference for Mac Developers, organized by the excellent Mac Developer Network. The workshops+conference will run from April 15 to April 17, near London, UK. I’ll be speaking there! More on the conference Web site.
Type inference for F-Script
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
F-Script is mostly latently typed and, as such, could benefit from a type inference system. Among other things, type inference can be used to detect a number of programming errors at compile time (which is nice) without cluttering programs with explicit typing.
Creating such a system for F-Script can draw from techniques already in use with [...]
F-Script for Automator
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on October 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Dominique Dutoit has released an F-Script action for Automator. It lets you add custom F-Script code within your Automator processes. You can get it here.
The input of the action (i.e., the output of the previous action) is automatically bound to a variable named “input” in the F-Script workspace. Usually, it is an NSArray object. [...]
Alpha 6
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on October 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
You can now download F-Script 2.0 alpha 6. It contains the latest developments, including:
Better error detection and reporting when defining new classes
Support in the runtime for subclassing F-Script classes in Objective-C
A literal syntax for hexadecimal numbers (finally!). Standard Smalltalk syntax; e.g., 16rFF5A.
Support for using the ~~ message with nil as a receiver
Various internal improvements
In addition, [...]
