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Re: A bribe to Fully Support AutoComplete/Intellisense & Debugger?

2009-11-09T20:20:06Z

What I mean is money. Since the developers will likely do this work
eventually
anyway and benefit in various ways, a bribe for open source means a
significant
token of money to raise priority.

It doesn't really compensate for the effort like contracting or hiring a
programmer
but it certainly tells us the customer is serious and gives us a valid

Re: A bribe to Fully Support AutoComplete/Intellisense & Debugger?

2009-11-09T19:34:49Z

Can you define "bribe" more specifically? :)

--
Justin Chase
[link]

A bribe to Fully Support AutoComplete/Intellisense & Debugger?

2009-11-09T18:49:14Z

What's the status or plans to make the AutoComplete/Intellisense
full featured in both Boo Addin for #D and BoolangPro for VS?
Please answer for either or both.
Hey, could we bribe one of you recognized Boo language developers
to work on this as a priority? Maybe Daniel who did the Boo Addin
for #D to begin with?

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T16:26:43Z

I Agree ;) + 1
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Grunwald

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T16:24:21Z

"as" already has two meanings:
x as object = SomeClass()
a as string = x # InvalidCastException
b = x as string # null
c as int = x # InvalidCastException
d = x as int # Compiler error
Adding a third meaning in the case 'd' would be even more confusing.
I like the idea of "cast" and "cast?"; then 'as' would unambiguously

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T16:03:38Z

Hummm.. Well, i don't really see a problem in overloading the meaning
of as, in the case of value types.
But, i like the idea of this cast and cast?, and if the dual meaning
of as is not desirable, i would be glad of have this cast forms

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Rodrigo B. de Oliveira

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T14:10:34Z

'as' is a try cast. It returns null to signal failure.
It could return a nullable value type version for value types but
that's not where I intend to go with it.
I've been thinking for some time now in unifying casts and nullable
casts and about removing the overloaded meaning of the 'as' keyword.
Regular Casts (throw upon failure)

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T13:54:10Z

Understood. Only, there may be value to using different syntax even if it's
not the
ugly cast( double, value).

Why?

Well, as is very specific functionality more than a cast. It will make the
reference
null of it's not castable. With a valuetable, null is impossble. So what
value would
you assign if it's not castable?

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T13:42:27Z

Yep, it doesn't work.

My real question is, why not ? I can't see a reason behind it.

Syntactically, i think it would be more Boo like to have as act like a
cast for valuetypes.
Probably for people that was not there in the beginning like me, the
first thing that they
will try to do is the var as double, like you did.

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T13:34:48Z

I tried that. It didn't work. It said you can't do that with a valuetype it
must be a reference.

Wayne

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-09T13:21:22Z

Looking at the code, i was thinking.

Why coudn't we write "variable as type", when variable is a valuetype
and type too ??

I always have a problem with cast, it's not Booish enough.

Just one ideia.

Cheers,

--
Georges "Artifex"
[link]

Indexer problem C# to Boo.

2009-11-08T18:49:47Z

This is again a conversion from C# to Boo using #Develop.
In c# a line like this:
high = low = retrace[0] = middle;
Converted to Boo like this:
high = (low = (retrace[0] = middle))
It gives an error on retrace[0] saying:
Cannot convert 'void' to 'double'. (BCE0022)
Removing retrace[0] the line compiles:

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-08T16:42:11Z

Okay. I'll use that as a work around. Thanks! - Wayne

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Rodrigo B. de Oliveira <

Re: Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-08T12:51:29Z

Right, that's currently not supported. I've filed a ticket
([link]).
It should be 'cast(double, elapsed) < endOfDay'.
Best regards,
Rodrigo

Operator '<=' cannot be used with a left hand side of type 'double' and a right hand side of type 'TickZoom.Api.Elapsed'

2009-11-07T22:08:05Z

Hi,

Boo is awesome from what I read about it. I plan to even contribute
money if it delivers the language features promised especially the
ability to extend it into a Domain Specific Language which is what we
need for tickzoom project which is commercial.

To get started, I simply used #Develop to convert a whole project in