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Rayne | 13 Mar 2010 05:26
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An error while making progman.pdf and a couple of questions

I git pulled this straight from the github repo, and I'm not a Latex
or lyx guy, so I'm not sure what's wrong here.

rayne <at> rayne-desktop:~/slate-language/doc$ make progman.pdf
lyx -e pdf progman.lyx progman.pdf
unusual contents found: [char " mathalpha][char g mathalpha][char o
mathalpha][char l mathalpha][char d mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char
+ mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i mathalpha]
[char s mathalpha][char h mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char =
mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char g mathalpha][char o mathalpha][char
l mathalpha][char d mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i mathalpha]
[char s mathalpha][char h mathalpha][char " mathalpha]
unusual contents found: [char " mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i
mathalpha][char s mathalpha][char h mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char
+ mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char g mathalpha][char o mathalpha]
[char l mathalpha][char d mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char =
mathalpha][char " mathalpha][char f mathalpha][char i mathalpha][char
s mathalpha][char h mathalpha][char g mathalpha][char o mathalpha]
[char l mathalpha][char d mathalpha][char " mathalpha]
Warning: Index sorting failed
----------------------------------------
LyX's automatic index sorting algorithm faced
problems with the entry '˜== (message)'.
Please specify the sorting of this entry manually, as
explained in the User Guide.
make: *** [progman.pdf] Error 1

Also, this link: http://www.slatelanguage.org/doc/progman.pdf is dead.

I've never used a language like Slate before, so I'm not used to the
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Timmy Douglas | 13 Mar 2010 16:30

Re: An error while making progman.pdf and a couple of questions


On Mar 12, 11:26 pm, Rayne <disciplera... <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I git pulled this straight from the github repo, and I'm not a Latex
> or lyx guy, so I'm not sure what's wrong here.
> [snip]
> Also, this link:http://www.slatelanguage.org/doc/progman.pdfis dead.

well progman is probably out of date anyways, you might want to try
rosettacode for a more gentle introduction.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Slate

> I've never used a language like Slate before, so I'm not used to the
> whole 'image'-based programming scheme. I'm not sure how I should go
> about writing my code. Is the entire application supposed to be made
> up of evaluated expressions in the REPL? What should be put in files,
> if anything at all? The tutorial is quite brief, and the
> GettingStarted tutorial is quite complicated, so I'm a little
> confused. :p

The slate vm runs the image similar to how the OS runs the vm (or any
executable).
The slate image contains all slate code and objects. Put your code
into files as
you would with any language and load it into the slate image to test.

> Finally, how would one write a command-line script or something of
> that sort?

like a bash script except with #!/path/to/slate
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Rayne Simpson | 13 Mar 2010 16:46
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Re: An error while making progman.pdf and a couple of questions

Timmy Douglas wrote:
> On Mar 12, 11:26 pm, Rayne <disciplera... <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I git pulled this straight from the github repo, and I'm not a Latex
>> or lyx guy, so I'm not sure what's wrong here.
>> [snip]
>> Also, this link:http://www.slatelanguage.org/doc/progman.pdfis dead.
>>     
>
> well progman is probably out of date anyways, you might want to try
> rosettacode for a more gentle introduction.
>
> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Slate
>
>
>   
>> I've never used a language like Slate before, so I'm not used to the
>> whole 'image'-based programming scheme. I'm not sure how I should go
>> about writing my code. Is the entire application supposed to be made
>> up of evaluated expressions in the REPL? What should be put in files,
>> if anything at all? The tutorial is quite brief, and the
>> GettingStarted tutorial is quite complicated, so I'm a little
>> confused. :p
>>     
>
> The slate vm runs the image similar to how the OS runs the vm (or any
> executable).
> The slate image contains all slate code and objects. Put your code
> into files as
> you would with any language and load it into the slate image to test.
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Timmy Douglas | 13 Mar 2010 17:33

Re: An error while making progman.pdf and a couple of questions


On Mar 13, 10:46 am, Rayne Simpson <disciplera... <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright, thanks. One more thing: what is the preferred way to distribute
> a Slate application, presumably on Linux?

You could give them your image, a VM, and any necessary DLLs.

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Rayne Simpson | 13 Mar 2010 17:37
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Re: An error while making progman.pdf and a couple of questions

Timmy Douglas wrote:
> On Mar 13, 10:46 am, Rayne Simpson <disciplera... <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Alright, thanks. One more thing: what is the preferred way to distribute
>> a Slate application, presumably on Linux?
>>     
>
> You could give them your image, a VM, and any necessary DLLs.
>
>   
Okay. One last final thing (for real this time ;)): Is there any sort of 
API documentation for Slate? If progman is outdated, what should one use 
to find what they're looking for?

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Timmy Douglas | 13 Mar 2010 21:51

Re: An error while making progman.pdf and a couple of questions


On Mar 13, 11:37 am, Rayne Simpson <disciplera... <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Timmy Douglas wrote:
> > On Mar 13, 10:46 am, Rayne Simpson <disciplera... <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Alright, thanks. One more thing: what is the preferred way to distribute
> >> a Slate application, presumably on Linux?
>
> > You could give them your image, a VM, and any necessary DLLs.
>
> Okay. One last final thing (for real this time ;)): Is there any sort of
> API documentation for Slate? If progman is outdated, what should one use
> to find what they're looking for?

if you want to get a list of methods using a particular object, for
example, a string, you could do this:

'hi' methodsUsingMe.

If you want to see something defined on just "String traits" you could
do:

String traits roles collect: #selector `er.

and then:

slate[52]> (#escaped findOn: {''}) method definitionLocation.
'src/core/string.slate:322'
slate[53]> (#escaped findOn: {''}) method sourceTree.
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