[Cuis] Ropes (functional strings)

[Guido Stepken]

doesNotUnderstand: aMessage

Is the most stupid answer, a intelligent system can give. Humans can tell
not only that they didn'nt understand, but also why.

In a full reflecting language it should be totally easy to cache the last
message a object received and backtracking the line of last sends.

Just add a 'last sent' cache to Object and trace.

Why doesn't CUIS do that?

Tnx in advance

>
>         "See what is missing from Ropes"
>         Transcript log: (String streamContents: [:s | aMessage storeOn:
s]).
>
>         "Do what a String would do"
>         aMessage sendTo: (self asString)
>
>
> and then
>
>
> Rope class>>openTextEditor
>
>
> openTextEditor
>
> "
>         Rope openTextEditor.
> "
>         SystemWindow
>                 editText: (TextModel
>                         withText: (FlatRope fromString:
>                                'Let us see what these Rope things can
do.'))
>                         label: 'Text Editor'
>                         wrap: true
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Hannes
>
> On 2/13/13, Ken Dickey <Ken.Dickey at whidbey.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:37:31 -0300
> > Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I must admit that I don't know when it makes sense to use it, but it is
> >> really interesting.
> >
> > The Cedar/Mesa language and IDE used only ropes.
> >
> > At least one Python implementation uses ropes internally for Unicode
> > strings:
> >
> >       http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2007/11/ropes-branch-merged.html
> >
> >
> > The IBM Java Ropes performance is also interesting, particularly with
> > respect to regular expression search.  [We could probably speed this up
with
> > Zippers, but I hate to get too functional here.  ;^].
> >
> >       http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ropes/index.html
> >
> >
> >> BTW, I find it totally amazing that you could hook this into the
> >> existing TextModel and text editor _without modifying a single method_!
> >
> > I thought that it was pretty cool myself.
> >
> > Hey, that is the way good Smalltalk should be written.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -KenD
> >
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