Re: I really like Ioke. How can I help?

[Sam Aaron <samaaron@gmail.com>]

On 5 Jan 2009, at 10.05 pm, Carlos Villela wrote:

> > Especially starting to think about
> > how distribution and so on could be done would be lovely.
>
> You mean distribution as something like RubyGems?

If Ioke is a hurricane, perhaps a suitable name for a distribution  
tool might follow suite?

e.g. cyclone, tornado, twister, etc.

> This is possibly off-topic, but another thing that's tricky to get my
> head around are the subtleties between macro, dmacro, lecro, lecrox,
> fn and fnx. This might just be me being unused to the Great LISP Way,
> but I reckon if the idea is making Ioke look and feel like a super
> powerful Ruby, these gotchas have to be well explained or more obvious
> in the code.

I personally agree. Given that I am currently only of Ruby bent and  
have only started to seriously learn lisp this year, I'm quite behind  
with these concepts. For example, lecrox is a thing of mystery and  
wonder similar to how blocks were in my early Ruby days. Once I  
grokked blocks, wondrous clicks and whirrings cascaded through my mind  
as I gained a new level of clarity. Hopefully something similar will  
happen with respect to these lispy constructs; I'm looking forward to  
it.

Oh, and I enjoyed your examples Carlos, particularly the Rock Papers  
Scissors DSL. Lovely stuff.

Sam