Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
If you've looked at Pony programming language code you've probably seen use of punctuation symbols in places and wondered what they meant. This post is an attempt to explain three of those - the bang, hat and arrow (!, ^ and -> respectively). Note that this is my understanding based on usage, reading the tutorials and watching videos so there... more →
Note 2017-08-01: Recent releases of Pony have changed syntax for lambda calls and partial function calls. This post has been updated to work with these changes as of Pony 0.16.1. The Pony programming language has support for closures but the documentation hasn't caught up with changes to the implementation. This post describes some of the features of Pony closures with... more →
Support for compiling Pony programs on ARM and 32-bit x86 landed recently. This allows compiling and running Pony on Raspberry Pi and other ARM devices. I was curious if it would be possible to compile Pony programs to run on Android and this post outlines how I got a "Hello World" example working. The Pony compiler, ponyc, does not currently... more →
Note 2017-08-01: Recent releases of Pony have changed some of the details of interacting with C. This post has been updated to work with these changes as of Pony 0.16.1. My quick look at Pony post covered how to use the FFI to call C code from a Pony program. It's also possible to compile Pony code to a C... more →
Following on from my previous video on using the Self GUI to create objects, I've done another that demonstrates how to export the objects to Self source files where they can be managed with a version control system and shared with other developers. more →