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

["Carlos Villela" <cv@lixo.org>]

>>> 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.

Breeze!

> 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.

Me too; somtimes, it just doesn't happen. When programming in C a few
years ago, I was in absolute awe when I finally understood what
function pointers actually did behind the scenes, and how I could bend
them to do all sorts of cool stuff. Unfortunately, it's one of those
classes of things that get forgotten very easily for me.

Like the scoping rules of blocks and everything about lisp macros,
function pointer tricks are something I have to pretty much relearn
everytime I get reacquainted with them. No problem though, as this
generally follows the 80/20 rule of language features, and looking
these things up doesn't hurt.

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

Thank you! Any ideas for new ones are greatly appreciated. I had a
chat with Danilo (from the TW UK office) about setting up a coding
dojo in Ioke so we can find out more crazy stuff you can do with it.
I'll announce it here when we have a date for it.

Cheers!

- Carlos