Hi Tim, Thanks for the kind words. What you see now is only the first more tangible effect of what Bloc represents. Expect significantly more :).
Cheers, Doru > On Aug 26, 2017, at 9:56 AM, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > > Guys - this is absolutely astounding. 6 months ago I tagged a tweet with > #pharoproject about why we put up with static source code when we can do so > much more, and I'm stunned that in literally months this is a evolving around > us. > > This community is awesome! > > Tim > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 26 Aug 2017, at 01:03, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We are really pleased to announce another major advancement in the >> development of the moldable editor, and most of it was enabled because of >> one new feature: expandable elements. We think this will impact >> significantly our day to day interactions. >> >> To exemplify what we mean, we will make use of two more alpha projects that >> we did not announce yet: GT Documenter (a set of documentation tools based >> on Pillar and GT Examples) and GT Mondrian (the graph visualization engine), >> both of which are being implemented in Bloc. >> >> Please take a look at the following pictures showing the documentation >> Pillar file that ships together with GT Mondrian. What stands out are the >> two embedded pictures. These are actually not pictures, but visualizations >> rendered live during the viewing of the document out of a referenced GT >> Example. >> >> <pillar-mondrian-examples.png> >> >> Now, GT Examples are likely also new for most people. We introduced them a >> couple of years ago based on the original idea of Markus Gaelli. These are a >> kind of tests that return an object and that can be built out of other >> examples. The nice thing is that they are always executable and testable. >> So, of course, if you see the resulting object, you can also see the code >> that created it, and if you see the code, you can even execute it live, >> right in place (notice the preview of the second snippet). >> >> <pillar-mondrian-expanded-preview.png> >> >> Perhaps the most controversial part of GT Examples is that they offer a >> mechanism to define static dependencies via pragmas. Please, let’s leave >> this debate to another occasion, but please also notice that tools can use >> that static information to unfold the code of the referenced method (notice >> the nested code editors). >> >> A side note: if you look closer at the list with three items at the top of >> the Tutorial section, you will notice numbering next to #. That is actually >> syntax highlighting and so is the mechanism that embeds the expandable >> elements. It’s really cool. >> >> Taking step back, when we introduced the editor a few weeks ago, we called >> it moldable because we said we can make it take different shapes easily. GT >> Documenter with everything you see in the above screenshots has currently >> ~500 lines of code, and all this while still having an editor that is highly >> scalable. >> >> We think that Bloc and Brick will change dramatically face of Pharo and now >> we can start to get a glimpse of what is possible. For example, the use case >> presented above is more than a technical tool, and we think this will change >> both the way we write documentation and the way we consume it. >> >> All these will be presented at ESUG both during presentations and at the >> Innovation Awards competition. In the meantime, those that want to play with >> it can execute the following in both Pharo 6.1 and Pharo 7.0: >> >> Iceberg enableMetacelloIntegration: true. >> Metacello new >> baseline: 'GToolkit'; >> repository: 'github://feenkcom/gtoolkit/src'; >> load. >> >> And then inspect: >> './pharo-local/iceberg/feenkcom/gtoolkit/doc/mondrian/index.pillar' >> asFileReference >> >> Cheers, >> The feenk team >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> www.feenk.com >> >> "Innovation comes in the least expected form. >> That is, if it is expected, it already happened." >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> moose-...@list.inf.unibe.ch >> https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > moose-...@list.inf.unibe.ch > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "There are no old things, there are only old ways of looking at them."
