Comments for the new dooz

Comment on Invalid Arguments with dev_appserver.py by Rocio Goldammer

Rocio Goldammer — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:18:54 +0000

Whoaa, so that’s how you do it. Great write up by the way.

Comment on Invalid Arguments with dev_appserver.py by Will

Will — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:18:44 +0000

This fix also helps if you are using XP but had a prior Python installation or otherwise outdated registry entries.

Comment on Todays random sillyness by Johan Lindberg

Johan Lindberg — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:58:27 +0000

I suspect they’ll say something similar on Troas in about 25 000 years as well. Imagine the disappointment at Nasa in about 50 000 years when they get back “Huh?”

Personally I use Pi for this kind of thing.

/Johan

Comment on Todays random sillyness by Shades

Shades — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:55:43 +0000

The message is received in Stockholm, and is not understood, since we are pretty stupid here.

Comment on Yay, I can solve problem 1! by admin

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:05:06 +0000

Hehe, yeah, the “end”s are more of a solution to the “yeah, I need some kind of block terminator, and I need it now”, so it was either “end” or “{ }” (sorry, I wasn’t going to do significant whitespace in my own language :)

Filter is part of the language, along with map and reduce. Sure, filter could be built from smaller components, but I don’t have any iterator-concept yet (ie no iterating over lists), and no way to build lists a piece at a time (only the [1..x] or [1, 2, 3...] constructions are written).

Yeah, making the return value the last statement executed turned out well; it was something that I had planned for, but it got in there more by coincidence because of how I implemented the evaluation code :)

From start to finish I think the project took less that 1 week of hacking after work, so I can definately recommend giving something like this a try.

Comment on Yay, I can solve problem 1! by Offe

Offe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:43:00 +0000

That’s really cool.

Your little language is quite readable. Being a python geek, I can’t say that I think all your “end”s are helping me to see the code in a clear way, but I guess that is a matter of taste.

Is “filter” a part of the language? Something that I was quite impressed with Haskell back in the days were that the language was basically nothing, and that most of the functions that I first saw as part of the language was actually just syntactic sugar. Maybe you can extract “filter” and build it from some more basic building block?

I like that your language assumes that a function should return the value of the last statement. Very functional!

Comment on Invalid Arguments with dev_appserver.py by Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:12:16 +0000

good one!

Comment on What’s really needed? by dooz

dooz — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:46:39 +0000

Ah, yeah, good stuff. Of course I should have skipped the guard on the generator, and used the expression directly to get the boolean instead like you do. I’ll try to remember that for next time :)

Comment on What’s really needed? by Offe

Offe — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:40:41 +0000

I would think that the built-in any() and a generator expression would be my weapon on choice.

not any(c.name == v.name and c.rate == v.rate for c in contracts)

Comment on What’s really needed? by dooz

dooz — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:18:06 +0000

Hehe, yeah, it is pretty horrible. What I want is pretty much the “or” operator applied over a whole list, and, being a Python newbie, I wasn’t able to get that to work in a more sensible way..