Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on January 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
F-Script 2.0 beta 1 is out (download here). Here is what’s new since the latest alpha:
Handy syntax for specifying dictionaries
Looks like this (for a dictionary with two entries):
#{key1 -> value1, key2 -> value2}
This creates an NSMutableDictionary object.
Easy access to standard IO streams
Three globals, stdin, stdout and stderr give access to the standard IO [...]
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The MacDev 2009 conference program looks great. A number of sessions are already described here. There will also be workshops and other activities. I’ll be giving a session modestly titled New Cocoa Programming Superpowers:
In some ways, we are still in infancy when it comes to harvest the enormous amount of power brought by dynamic [...]
Posted in Cocoa, F-Script, Smalltalk on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Alpha 7 is out (download here). Four main user visible changes:
Class instance variables
We now have support for class instance variables. In the following example, we use this capability to define a class that keeps track of how many times it has been instantiated:
MyClass : NSObject
{
“Define the class instance variable that will keep track [...]
