Re: Io chokes on sample code

I second this.  A lot of time we're just idling, so it's not really a 
fast-paced thing.
-->Jake

On 2/26/2012 1:04 PM, Jan-Paul Bultmann wrote:
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> You should really check the irc out,
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> no worries we can wait on answers ^^
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> Cheers Jan
> On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Duke Normandin wrote:
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>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:26:14 -0500
>> gatesphere <[email protected] <mailto:gatesphere%40gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> > Not "always", but whenever you have some statements that you're
>> > separating by newlines. When you do that, throw a semicolon in
>> > there.
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>> I've also discovered that multiple statements on one line need to
>> be separated by a semi-colon in the REPL, as in:
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>> Number factorial := method(n := 1; for(i, 1, self, n = n * i); n)
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>> I tried the above w/o them and got stung!
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>> So, newlines in the REPL notwithstanding, it seems that it's
>> there's multiple statements - separate them with a semi-colon.
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>> I've also discovered that the newlines *in a script* serve as
>> statement separators. However, again, if the statements are all on
>> one line, the semi-colons are required. I gotta learn the hard
>> way, it seems. lol ...
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>> > As mentioned on the irc channel yesterday, the Io interpreter
>> > translates newlines into semicolons when it reads in scripts, but
>> > in the REPL you have to do that manually.
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>> > You'll get a feel for it eventually. I almost never use
>> > semicolons now, but I used to sprinkle everything with them.
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>> It takes some getting used to - but then again, what doesn't! I
>> wish that I was a faster keyboarder - I'd join in on IRC....
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Duke
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