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Re: [Esug-list] Nested Degenerate Convenience Methods

by Andres Valloud

I would call that code an example of "convenience methods". In C, those things would likely be implemented in terms of "macros". The term "pattern" is overloaded, I wouldn't use it here. On 4/1/15 9:49 , Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > Is there a name for the following pattern? > > doSomething: arg1 > ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2Default > > doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 > ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ifB: arg3Default > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Nested-Degenerate-Convenience-Methods-tp4816719.html > Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

April 1, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] Nested Degenerate Convenience Methods

by Damien Pollet

Hi Sean, I'm using "implicit default" or "implicit argument" for the chains of less and less terse methods that eventually call the fully-explicit canonic one. There is a related idiom where the explicit argument is a block, and the implicit version either results in a sentinel value or signals an exception, e.g. ifAbsent/ifNone. This one I call "default case handler". In either case, I'm not convinced the name is that clear, so if you get by a nice one, I'm interested. > On 01 Apr 2015, at 18:49, Sean P. DeNigris <sean(a)clipperadams.com> wrote: > > Is there a name for the following pattern? > > doSomething: arg1 > ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2Default > > doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 > ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ifB: arg3Default > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Nested-Degenerate-Convenience-Methods-tp4816719.html > Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet

April 1, 2015

Nested Degenerate Convenience Methods

by Sean P. DeNigris

Is there a name for the following pattern? doSomething: arg1 ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2Default doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ^ self doSomething: arg1 ifA: arg2 ifB: arg3Default ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Nested-Degenerate-Convenience-Methods-tp4816719.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

April 1, 2015

Google Code Shutdown

by Sean P. DeNigris

In case anyone hasn't heard, Google Code will shut down entirely on January 25, 2016. I was following these Smalltalk projects there: magritte-metamodel moose-technology seaside marsonpharo nativeboost metacello squeaksource3 phratch The easiest action seems to be to export to GitHub, for which Google Code even provides a button! I just used it for one of my projects and it was pretty painless. - Sean Cross-posted to ESUG, pharo-dev, squeak-dev, seaside-dev, magritte, metacello ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Google-Code-Shutdown-tp4814759.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

March 24, 2015

Roassal and Spy

by Alexandre Bergel

Dear Community, The Smalltalk community is flourishing and the number of projects being developed is growing incredibly fast. We are happy to see an increasing number of Roassal and Spy users. Fantastic projects are being built using these frameworks. We have a very long list of todos to address many of your requests for improvement and bug fixes. Unfortunately, we have been time to time slow on addressing your request. As you can imagine, our manpower to push Roassal and Spy is limited, although it has been regularly increasing over the last three years (and will continue to do so). We would like to deliver more. Much more. Our long-term goal is to deliver the platform for visualization. Yes, we are aiming at being _the_ platform, and not simply _a_ great platform. Soon we will have D3, Protoviz, Raphael and all their friends far behind. Attaining this goal takes time. We are looking for a way to speed our effort up. That is the reason of this email. We are now making the public announcement for services provided by Object Profile, the company behind Roassal and Spy. We are selling engineering work and dedicated services. Get in touch with us for more info. Kind regards The Object Profile crew -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

March 19, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] Camp Smalltalk PDX

by Craig Anslow

Hi Andres and others, You could also consider doing a Smalltalk Camp at SPLASH this year in Pittsburgh. I am sure you would get a good turn out. Basically you could co-locate or submit a workshop proposal and then run the workshop/camp as you please. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops There are a number of other exciting collocated events happening as well. Thanks. Kind regards, Craig Craig Anslow, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Computer Science University of Calgary, Canada T: +1 587 999 8020 E: craig.anslow(a)ucalgary.ca W: http://anslow.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ From: Andres Valloud <avalloud(a)smalltalk.comcastbiz.net<mailto:avalloud@smalltalk.comcastbiz.net>> Reply-To: <andres.valloud(a)gmail.com<mailto:andres.valloud@gmail.com>> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:14:27 -0700 To: <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org>> Subject: [Esug-list] Camp Smalltalk PDX A group of Smalltalkers have been discussing the possibility of having a Camp Smalltalk in Portland Oregon, August 20-23. If you think you might be interested in attending such a gathering, please let us know filling our short survey: http://goo.gl/forms/Di0rFPMcLu We also encourage you to join the SCONA mailing list here: http://scona.us/mailman/listinfo/scona-list The proposed format is: * Thursday 20th evening prior: An informal welcoming dinner at a local pub or similar. * Friday 21st morning - Sunday 23rd afternoon: The event proper, consisting of a blend of scheduled talks or discussions and free-form pair programming. * Sunday 23rd evening - Farewell dinner. The whole event is envisioned as being informal enough that showing up for only part of the time is perfectly acceptable. Your responses will help us with our planning efforts. Feel free to forward this message to any other Smalltalk forums or individual Smalltalkers you think might be interested. Andres. _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org<mailto:Esug-list@lists.esug.org> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

March 19, 2015

Camp Smalltalk PDX

by Andres Valloud

March 19, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] how to pick an existing (empty) directory name (mapped in Windows to a drive letter)?

by Ulli Wenk

March 11, 2015

SPLASH 2015: 2nd Call for Contributions: OOPSLA, Onward!, Workshops, Dynamic Languages Symposium

by Craig Anslow

/************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'15) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 25th-30th October, 2015 http://www.splashcon.org<http://www.splashcon.org/> Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OOPSLA Onward! Workshops Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) /************************************************************************************/ The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH is now accepting submissions. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ** OOPSLA Research Papers ** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions Due: 25 March, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/oopsla2015 ** Onward! Research Papers ** Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions Due: 2 April, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-papers ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps that by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions Due: 2 April, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-essays ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track will host a variety of high-quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. Early Phase Submissions Due: 25 March, 2015 Late Phase Submissions Due: 30 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops ** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) ** DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages — from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript — on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow. We invite high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Submissions Due: 7 June, 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dls2015-papers ** Co-Located Events ** 8th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/sle2015 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Submissions Due: 15 June, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce2015 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) Submissions Due: 4 May, 2015 http://conf.researchr.org/home/plop2015 15th Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL) Information: SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 25 September, 2015 Contact: info(a)splashcon.org<mailto:info@splashcon.org> Website: http://2015.splashcon.org<http://2015.splashcon.org/> Location: Sheraton Station Square Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Patrick Eugster (Purdue University) Onward! Papers Chair: Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) Onward! Essays Chair: Guy Steele (Oracle Labs) DLS Papers Chair: Manuel Serrano (INRIA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) and Michael Hind (IBM Research) Demos Co-Chairs: Igor Peshansky (Google) and Pietro Ferrara (IBM Research) Inspirations Co-Chairs: Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University), Zach Tatlock (University of Washington), and Crista Lopes (UC Irvine) Local Arrangements Chair: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University) Posters Chair: Nick Sumner (Simon Fraser University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Craig Anslow (University of Calgary) and Tijs van der Storm (CWI) SPLASH-E Chair: Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Sponsorship Chair: Tony Hosking (Purdue University) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: Sam Guyer (Tufts University) and Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Jonathan Bell (Columbia University) and Daco Harkes (TU Delft) Wavefront Co-Chairs: Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) Workshops Co-Chairs: Du Li (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) SLE General Chair: Richard Paige, University of York GPCE General Chair: Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University PLoP General Chair: Filipe Correia, University of Porto /************************************************************************************/

March 6, 2015

CFP IWST 2015 - Reminder - Deadline April 10th

by jannik laval

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST15 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Brescia, Italy; July 15, 2015 http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_… ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- Goals and scopes ------------------- The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints. We expect papers of three kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application. We will not enforce any length restriction. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- *Submission deadline: April 10th, 2015* Notification deadline: May 20th, 2015 Workshop : July 15th, 2015 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL ------------------- Topics ------------------- We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: -Aspect-oriented programming, -Design patterns, -Experience reports, -Frameworks, -Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, -Interaction with other languages, -Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, -Tools ------------------- Best Paper Award ------------------- To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. ------------------- Publication ------------------- Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. ------------------- Submission ------------------- All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst2015 ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Anne Etien (Université de Lille 1, France) Jannik Laval (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France) -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ École des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info http://car.mines-douai.fr/

March 5, 2015