Time to learn. Phil
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:24 AM, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't use GitHub. I've never used GitHub. I don't know how to use GitHub. > > I looked at making a pull request and I was totally stymied. "Clueless" > doesn't even begin to describe how I felt. > > > Ben Coman wrote > > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 9:15 PM, horrido < > > > horrido.hobbies@ > > > > wrote: > >> Yes, I did. I found it difficult to understand. It would be nice to have > >> some > >> clear examples in the documentation, for example, really simple and > >> common > >> situations such as a C function returning an integer in a > >> passed-by-reference argument. > >> > >> Speaking of documentation, in "Pharo by Example 50," I found this > >> statement: > >> > >>> (Recall that you should set halosEnabled in the Preferences > >> browser.) > >> > >> However, nowhere else in the book is there any reference to halosEnabled > >> or > >> Preferences browser. > > > > Nice pick up. Now in Settings (in a fresh 60473 image), filtering on > > "halo" shows only: > > * Cycle both directions > > * Encloses fullbounds > > * Exhibits bounds > > so the comment seems irrelevant > > > > and #halosEnabled & #halosEnabled: each have one implementor class-side > of > > Morph > > with one sender from MorphTest each, and one sender from Morph>>addHalo: > > > > and "Morph halosEnabled" ==> true, so the statement seems unnecessary. > > Would you like to contribute a pull request removing it? > > https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/UpdatedPharoByExample/blob/ > master/Morphic/Morphic.pier > > > > > >> Did you guys forget and leave out a chunk of the book? > > > > Its an evolutionary book originally from Squeak. It could well be > > that some parts of the book have been cleaned > > better than others to match Image changes. Thanks for reporting, and > > even better if you can correct it. > > > > cheers -ben > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/How-to- > use-uFFI-with-String-tp4947890p4948512.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
