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The Value of Money
I have a new topics to write about – macro-economics. My interest is partly due to the enormous economic upheaval caused by COVID-19, but is more specifically due to reading Stephanie Kelton’s “The Deficit Myth” which outlines MMT – Modern … Continue reading
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LR parsing with line-breaks – yet again
It has been some years since I last wrote about about parsing with indents and line-breaks. Some of that time I’ve been distracted by other things, some of it has involved working on other areas of language design, but some … Continue reading
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Local variables and scope
While I was writing test code for my first toy language I particularly noticed the lack of interesting data structures: to write interesting loops you can do a lot more if you can build data structures while doing it. So … Continue reading
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Complex documents in edlib
One of my core goals in developing edlib is to allow the display to be programmatically controlled: the content of a document is formatted dynamically as it is displayed, and so can respond to context (e.g. location of “point” can … Continue reading
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Fewer NULL dereferences in edlib
My recent efforts with edlib have been to get rid of some potential NULL pointer dereference issues. When I first started writing “commands” I assumed that the correct value would always be passed. Of course that isn’t very safe unless … Continue reading
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A notmuch based email reader
I’ve been very slack. Sorry. I keep thinking “I should write a blog post about that” when I make some progress with edlib. But I also think “or I could write some more code instead”. I do enjoy writing blog … Continue reading
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edlib is back on track…
In the weeks leading up toe linux.conf.au 2016 I approached edlib development as a sprint. I wanted to put together sufficient functionality so that I could present my LCA2016 talk using slides displayed by edlib. I achieved this goal but … Continue reading
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LCA-2016 presentation is done
I’ve been busy of the last couple of months. A number of family and personal things meant I have less time for edlib, but I had a lot to do for edlib too. I really wanted to use edlib to … Continue reading
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edlib – render-lines, what a good idea.
I had a brain-wave last week. I thought it would take me about a day to implement but it took 3 to get it working almost reasonably and the rest of the week to polish it and create some proper … Continue reading
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edlib – commands
It been over 3 months – maybe you thought I had given up – but no. I had some holidays and other distractions, but I’m back and will be working fairly consistently for a while. The topic for today is … Continue reading
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