On 06-10-05, at 00:39, Trans wrote:

>
> Logan Capaldo wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:10:10PM +0900, Michael Keller wrote:
>>> I have strong interest in highly dynamic languages, particularly
>>> prototype-based languages - and am still looking for the language  
>>> that I
>>> have to "abuse least" to achieve what I want (for my attempt in  
>>> Java,
>> This may be considered blashpemous, but have you seen Io?
>> (http://www.iolanguage.com) It lets you alter the prototypes for an
>> object dynamic, which effectively gives you the abilities of removing
>> mixins and changing the superclass.
>
> Io does look interesting but I for one couldn;t help but shy aways b/c
> of it's lack of a block notation. Passing lambdas as regulat prameters
> can get pretty rough on the old eyes.

We don't need block notation, everywhere you'd use blocks in Ruby, we  
just use message objects. They're cheap, have the same benefits, and  
tie well into Io's conceptual unification.

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Jeremy Tregunna
Io Language Developer
jtregunna / blurgle.ca