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<FromGitter> <drujensen> @RX14 how would you envision a component system that would allow for extending the HTTP::Server::Context?
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<FromGitter> <drujensen> Here is a flash handler in Kemalyst. It adds a special hash to the HTTP::Server::Context and then uses it to keep track of flash messages.
<FromGitter> <drujensen> how could we componentize this handler so it can be re-used by other frameworks like Kemal?
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<FromGitter> <TheLonelyGhost> I'm looking at https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4226, seeing if I can scope out the amount of effort and how much of a learning curve for hooking into LibC. At this point, should I be looking at C tutorials?
<FromGitter> <TheLonelyGhost> Also looks like LibC is missing `#syscall` in `src/lib_c/x86_64-macosx-darwin/c/unistd.cr`. Does anyone know why?
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<FromGitter> <bararchy> @oprypin , I'm using your crsfml lib to write a simple game, It's quite fun , thanks for taking the time for building it :)
<FromGitter> <elorest> I’m trying to find a weird syntax documented somewhere. https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/21ha
<FromGitter> <bew> @elorest this is for https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/21hb
<FromGitter> <bew> This allows you to have an exposed name for an argument, and an internal name
<FromGitter> <bew> (used in the method body)
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<FromGitter> <bew> Why `OpAssign` is disabled in macros ? eg.`{{ some_var += 3 }}`
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<FromGitter> <crisward> @sdogruyol Does kemal ping websockets to keep them alive? I've noticed my inactive websockets close after 1 minute. Not sure if it's Chrome or Crystal which is doing this? I have some reconnect logic client side, which auto reconnect, but wasn't sure if I should add something to my crystal code to ping every 30 seconds to keep the browsers connected.
<FromGitter> <crisward> It looks like chrome which is doing the disconnect. Will add a ping to see if this keeps things connected.
<FromGitter> <crisward> I've added spawned loop with a 30 second sleep to ping all connected sockets. The reconnects have gone away.
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<oprypin> bew, macros are intentionally limited
<oprypin> bararchy, :) i saw the issue you posted but i have no idea what could be wrong with font loading. have you tried the examples and the bundled font?
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<crystal-gh> [crystal] reitermarkus opened pull request #4430: Add new `?~` (boolean `=~`) operator. (master...boolean-equal-tilde-operator) https://git.io/vHvDb
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<FromGitter> <bew> about #4430 what are thoses operators?
<DeBot> https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/4430 (Add new `?~` (boolean `=~`) operator.)
<FromGitter> <bew> (`=~`, `!~`, `?~`)
<wuehlmaus> is this a bug?
<wuehlmaus> [in ruby it works with $' ]
<Papierkorb> bew, looks like an unecessary addition to the language
<wuehlmaus> i was not sure so i am asking.
<wuehlmaus> it works with the "match" method
<FromGitter> <bew> wuehlmaus: it seems that gsub does not set the special `$~` var
<FromGitter> <bew> and it is documented here: https://crystal-lang.org/api/0.22.0/String.html#gsub(pattern:Regex,replacement,backreferences=true)-instance-method (3rd line)
<wuehlmaus> bew: thanks
<FromGitter> <bararchy> oprypin: I get the same error for the font you get with the examples
<FromGitter> <bararchy> oprypin: Could it be because I `make` from the HEAD git and not the tar release file ?
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<FromGitter> <fridgerator> @crisward its necessary to implement a "heartbeat", kemal doesn't do this for you
<FromGitter> <fridgerator> rails / phoenix / some nodejs frameworks however, have this implemented already
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<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> How do I submit a shard to crystalshards.xyz?
<FromGitter> <fridgerator> @bigtunacan it gets data form github automatically
<Papierkorb> It should show up within a day
<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> How does it do that?
<FromGitter> <bew> @bigtunacan you don't need to do anything, it search github every hour for new projects using crystal
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<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> gotcha
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<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> I figured just tagging something as Crystal lang isn't enough since that would include non libs
<Papierkorb> github does analysis by itself to figure out the used language(s), which you can then search for
<FromGitter> <bew> (maybe it'll open the shards.yml file, and checks it's a lib..)
<Papierkorb> no tagging necessary
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<FromGitter> <crisward> @fridgerator Thanks, done that.
<crystal-gh> [crystal] akzhan opened pull request #4433: Mimics EAGAIN on EINPROGRESS error while ssl_shutdown. Fixes #3168 (master...retry-EINPROGRESS-on-unbuffered-close) https://git.io/vHfI7
<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> @bew Thanks
<FromGitter> <bew> yw :)
<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> Guess we'll see how long it takes for them to show up
<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> Dang
<FromGitter> <bigtunacan> That was quick, lol
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<oprypin> can't find any decent way to find whether a loop ended by using `break` or not
<RX14> oprypin, what usecase?
<oprypin> break means 'aha, found it'. no break means not found. dont want to keep around a silly boolean
<oprypin> seems like my code is failing even if i do it with a boolean, too bad
<RX14> oprypin, surely you can capture the result of the while
<RX14> break <result>
<RX14> else it's nil?
<oprypin> yeah i think that works
<RX14> nice
<RX14> might need a nil at the end of the loop though
<RX14> test it
<oprypin> thanks
<oprypin> now i want a neat way to find every index in an array for which some condition is true
<oprypin> and get them in reverse
<RX14> if only #index returned an array
<oprypin> even worse for a string
<oprypin> string.chars.each_index.to_a.reverse.select { |i| string[i] == '?' }
<RX14> uhh
<RX14> surely the first part is just (0...string.size).to_a.reverse
<RX14> or just
<RX14> string.size.downto(0).select { |i| }
<RX14> >> "foobar".chars.each_index.to_a
<DeBot> RX14: # => [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] - https://carc.in/#/r/21qg
<RX14> yeah
<oprypin> welp who needs indices in reverse when you can use reverse_each on them later. `(0...string.size).select { |i| string[i] == '?' } `
<RX14> (string.size - 1).downto... though
<RX14> oprypin, oh i guess lol
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<RX14> upto/downto have iterator version though
<RX14> i think it looks cleaner than the range
<RX14> but thats personal
<FromGitter> <elorest> Thanks @bew
<oprypin> RX14, then you'd need .to_a at the end
<oprypin> cuz iterator.select -> iterator
<RX14> yes but do you need that to_a
<RX14> if you're just going to revsrse_each
<RX14> if so then sure
<RX14> but if it's not going to stick around then you might as well keep it an iterator
<RX14> wait can you do reverse_each on an iterator, probably not
<RX14> yeah that was stupid
<FromGitter> <bigDaddyS1oth> Just got here, what's someone trying to iterate over?
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<FromGitter> <bew> @bigDaddyS1oth it was oprypin (sorry for mention), quoting him: now i want a neat way to find every index in an array for which some condition is true
<oprypin> that was 2 different things. anyway, can't you see chat log in gitter?
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<FromGitter> <bigDaddyS1oth> Can't you check if an array contains certain elements using `.includes?`or is `.includes?` apart of `String`? you could do a while do loop for a range of elements that are included in an array and then do whatever you want if they're included.
<FromGitter> <bigDaddyS1oth> I mean if we had a `foreach` you could do `foreach range_array in arrayToIterate do`
<FromGitter> <akzhan> hello, glad to meet you
<FromGitter> <akzhan> just pushed fix for einpogresss error, it looks like correct
<FromGitter> <bigDaddyS1oth> and then you could do something to do if certain elements in a range aren't included. Like...hmm...but again, we don't have a `foreach` unless `for variable.each`does the same thing.
<FromGitter> <bigDaddyS1oth> The take away from this should be; we need easier ways to iterate over data collections and strings. :P
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Hmm.. `collection.each |item|` looks like short and intuitive. `foreach item in collection` is longer and intuitive too. But newcomers usually know about each.
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<FromGitter> <bigDaddyS1oth> True.
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> hey all! we just published the CodeCamp presentations and code examples here: https://codecamp.crystal-lang.org/Crystal-CodeCamp-SF2017.zip
<FromGitter> <akzhan> @mverzilli nice presentations. can it be rewritten as article (all of them)?
<TheGillies> I saw future/parallel functions in a presentation
<TheGillies> are these in crystal?
<TheGillies> and lazy func
<TheGillies> in the "concurrency and processes" presentation
<FromGitter> <crisward> I'm getting a "Exception: Error writing file: Broken pipe" error when a web socket is closed by browser mid-send from crystal. Any ideas how to handle this? Rescuing this exception doesn't seem to work?
<FromGitter> <akzhan> you should ignore SIGPIPE, i suppose
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> @akzhan that would be great
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> I guess with time we could do that (or add it to the language reference)
<FromGitter> <crisward> @akzhan How do I do that ?
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Yes, I was wondering, but noy found these keywords in current codebase. looks like not published yet.
<FromGitter> <bew> @mverzilli awesome, thanks for the presentations!
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> <TheGillies> `parallel` and `lazy` are macros, so you can find them at the top level docs: https://crystal-lang.org/api/0.22.0/toplevel.html
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Wow!
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> we need to enhance that, it's super difficult to find stuff that's at the top level
<TheGillies> mverzilli: many thanks
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> you're welcome!
<FromGitter> <akzhan> @crisward I doesn’t know Crystal well, but looks like you need to ⏎ ⏎ ```require «signal» ⏎ ⏎ Signal.trap(Signal.PIPE, Signal.ignore)``` [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=591f36a69f4f4ab05bdf22dd]
<FromGitter> <crisward> @akzhan thanks! - I found an example in this test https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/cafe21f73ab85731f83eabc59c8eda2684fabdcc/src/spec/spec.cr
<FromGitter> <akzhan> This is usually required for daemon processes.
<FromGitter> <crisward> I'll give it a go
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> @oprypin you can also do this style of thing https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/21r5/edit
<FromGitter> <bararchy> ```Signal::PIPE.trap do ⏎ puts "doing something" ⏎ end ⏎ ``` [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=591f375feec422e415cc3994]
<TheGillies> "Conditionally spawns a Fiber to run &block in the background. " why do code examples use a spawn to call lazy result then?
<TheGillies> also not really sure what the difference between lazy and future is. does future run the block at runtime whereas lazy waits for explicit .get call?
<FromGitter> <crisward> @bararchy used that to wrap my socket.send - seems to have worked a treat. Thanks @bararchy @akzhan !
<FromGitter> <bararchy> @crisward Enjoy :)
<TheGillies> answered my own question re: future/lazy, future block does execute at runtime
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<FromGitter> <akzhan> lazy doesn’t run block immediately. Src/concurrent.future.cr
<TheGillies> lazy doesn't look like it runs in background, am I missing something?
<TheGillies> is it essentially just a memoization feature?
<FromGitter> <akzhan> <TheGillies> I have seen `lazy` just a minutes ago, so also in expirements :)
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Lazy spec is old as two years ago
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Documentation must be updated, but examples needed for start
<RX14> @mverzilli thanks for the compiler internals slides, especially the ones on the semantic phases
<RX14> would love to see some kind of intro to compiler work
<RX14> lazy/future/parallel are cool but noone knows they exist
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> @RX14 :). some kind of intro? would you ellaborate?
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> <TheGillies> `lazy` only spawns if you call `get`
<RX14> some kind of blog post or something to help people who want to contribute to the compiler get started
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> `future` attempts to spawn immediately
<RX14> like this slideshow but more in depth
<FromGitter> <akzhan> @mverzilli I can help with documentation on concurency macros in the Language reference, but need examples of code. ⏎ ⏎ Agrhhh, I have used Crystal without great macros.
<RX14> would take quite a bit of effort though
<RX14> and would be best as a living document not a blog post
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> yes, this is a start
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> agree
<FromGitter> <akzhan> just mention that Crystal already used by myself in production. :) I’m novice, start learning at 1 May.
<RX14> @akzhan you already seem to be doing great
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> <Gillies> memoization isn't the central concept here. in that regard `future` and `lazy` are actually the same: no matter how many times you call `get`, the block only executes once
<FromGitter> <bew> @mverzilli about the presentations in the archive (of the code camp), I've inserted number prefixes, to have them in order, would you mind to change that in the official zip?
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<FromGitter> <mverzilli> @bew not sure what you mean. you sorted them? shoot me an email to mverzilli@manas.tech and I'll take a look
<TheGillies> mverzilli: both lazy/future docs say they run "in the background in a fiber" yet they are blocking. that's what I'm not getting
<RX14> the get call is blocking
<RX14> the future{}/lazy{} block is not
<TheGillies> ah
<TheGillies> I get it now
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> that
<TheGillies> makes sense, thanks
<RX14> also .get isn't blocking if it finishes before you call it obviously
<TheGillies> well get will always be blocking on lazy right because it doesn't execute until you call it?
<RX14> the first time, yes
<RX14> but the second time it won't be
<TheGillies> first time is the best time
<TheGillies> ok
<TheGillies> thanks
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> I think the docs on that are not very helpful, that's the root problem :P
<FromGitter> <bew> @mverzilli I meant: http://i.imgur.com/gXPA2vj.jpg
<RX14> it doesn't have docs afaik
<RX14> it's marked :nodoc:
<FromGitter> <bew> (not sure if it's the correct order)
<RX14> as there was discussion of removing or revamping future
<RX14> it looks a bit messy to me
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> I mean this: https://crystal-lang.org/api/0.22.0/toplevel.html#lazy%28%26block%3A-%3E_%29-class-method
<RX14> ah
<RX14> documenting and cleaning up future would be great
<TheGillies> it's obvious when you realize it's talking about lazy/future call and not the get call heh
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> @bew, that's cool we'll do it
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> thanks for clarifying
<RX14> might be worth reducing it's size by using a union for the type i'm not sure
<FromGitter> <bew> You're welcome ;)
<TheGillies> If you just remove "Conditionally spawns a Fiber to run &block in the background" from lazy func would make sense again
<TheGillies> that's the confusing bit, since nothing happens initially
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> Yeah, I have no idea what that means tbh :P
<TheGillies> I was probably copy pasted from future
<TheGillies> since it's the same text and makes sense there
<TheGillies> it was*
<RX14> @mverzilli wtat do you think about moving Future to the top level and documenting it
<RX14> should it really be in Concurrent?
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> do you mean Future, the class?
<RX14> yes
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> i was just about to say that `Concurrent::Future` needs some docs ;-)
<RX14> seems inconsistent for it to not be top-level to me
<RX14> and for it to be :nodoc:
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Some macros MUST be documented as language topics itself. Just by macros chapter. It’s contrlogically but dramatically reduces learning curve.
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> yeah, last we talked about it was kind of intentionally under documented because we wanted to review the design
<RX14> @mverzilli yeah that would be nice too
<RX14> looking back it looks like the API of it is fine
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> @RX14 i think that `lazy` and `future` are nice helpers at the top level, its ok for the classes to be where they are
<RX14> but people using the helpers need to nkow about the class
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> but maybe it's not the best approach, let me check with Waj what he has in mind in the long term
<RX14> @mverzilli sure
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> totally need the class documented … for sure
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Just document it in the language, not sodlib. as examples, may be.
<FromGitter> <akzhan> With references to stdlib.
<RX14> @akzhan I think there is a need for a guided tour of the API docs
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Yep
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> yeah there's a place for something that bridges the language reference with the API docs
<RX14> a topic-based grouping of important classes
<RX14> so basics with array, hash, string etc
<RX14> with links to the API docs
<RX14> an into chapter with gotchas about the API docs
<RX14> namely the top level namespace and object classes everyone misses
<RX14> and pointing out that a lot of the methods on collections are in enumerable/indexable
<FromGitter> <mverzilli> always reminds me of this: http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/572/078/d6d.jpg
<RX14> yeah lol
<oprypin> python does that very well
<oprypin> but it's an entirely different mentality for documentation
<oprypin> they have a much more advanced system and almost never just plop functions and their generated docs
<FromGitter> <akzhan> <oprypin> nothing stops us to use good documentation practices. You may offer some topics layout, for example.
<oprypin> it's too much work though to get to that result
<RX14> too much work for a growing language maybe, but we should make it possible
<RX14> we should create the tools and start the seed so that things can be added
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Just provide good examples with minimum adoption. I like to dicument anything, maybe here too.
<RX14> there's pretty good examples for a lot of the stuff
<RX14> especially array/hash/enumerable
<FromGitter> <akzhan> There?
<oprypin> autogenerated documentation can never beat this https://docs.python.org/dev/library/re.html
<oprypin> and python does indeed show a perfect example of tying together the tutorial and API docs but it's more on the API docs being readable doocuments in their own right now just an alphabetically sorted list
<oprypin> not* just
<RX14> oprypin, that is autogenerated documentation, the main differences to crystal I see is that the "header" docs are way way larger
<RX14> and that methods are ordered explicitly
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Yes, Crystal documentation is too divided to language/stdlib and have no bridges between. But it’s simply curent state. It will be reworked.
<RX14> and each section of class/instance methods has it's own heading and custom intro
<RX14> oh and examples at the bottom
<RX14> it's not *too much work*
<oprypin> oh and this and that
<RX14> to move crystal's docs to be something like that
<RX14> it can be done incrementally
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<oprypin> one thing's for sure - alphabetic sorting has to go
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<FromGitter> <akzhan> btw I have requested pull for .editorconfig in crystal init. This is widely used so good to merge #4422
<DeBot> https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/4422 (Add .editorconfig template on crystal init command.)
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<oprypin> no idea what that thing does but whatever, `init` is bloat anyway
<oprypin> in my view the solution to boilerplate is not automating its creation but removing it
<RX14> ideally but it's not always possible
<RX14> i could bootstrap a project without the template easilly
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<FromGitter> <akzhan> It’s simple. my team use VSCode, Sublime, Vim and Emacs. ⏎ ⏎ We need common divider, and http://editorconfig.org/ does it. Just like crystal tool format.
<RX14> however a newcomer wants that framework
<RX14> and wants to know the standard
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Crystal team already use it.
<oprypin> editorconfig is a good initiative
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<FromGitter> <akzhan> @RX14 i just comment your Pull request, I suppose we need any benchmark tool that shows changes before/after the change. #4428
<DeBot> https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/4428 (Add limits to HTTP request parsing)
<FromGitter> <akzhan> And results should be added to PR (may be automatically)
<RX14> I don't think that a benchmark should be required unless automated
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Yep. just like coverage.
<RX14> yeah i'll put that on my "CI plans" list :)
<RX14> but i can do one one-off for here
<RX14> the gets calls shouldn't have much of an impact at all
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Practice shows that almost always can not measure speculative conclusions
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Sorry for my English, I have no practice for years :)
<RX14> no it's pretty good, I can always understand you
<TheGillies> ĉu vi povas paroli esperanton? :P
<FromGitter> <akzhan> So benchmarks have a best fit here.
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Ne, bedaŭrinde
<TheGillies> sed... vi ĵus parolis ĝin :P
<FromGitter> <akzhan> What can not you learn by walking with Russian bears in Moscow.
<TheGillies> ?
<FromGitter> <akzhan> it’s just google translate :)
<FromGitter> <akzhan> I’m from Moscow, Russia.
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* TheGillies is from Portlandia
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Glad to see ya
<FromGitter> <akzhan> but it is tv series isn’t it?
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Sorry it’s offtopic
<TheGillies> TV series is about a real place
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Oops Portland :)
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<crystal-gh> [crystal] spalladino pushed 1 new commit to master: https://git.io/vHJks
<crystal-gh> crystal/master be945b5 Chris Hobbs: Added compile progress tracker (#4182)...
<FromGitter> <TheLonelyGhost> Very much late to the party, but I'm also very interested in docs for the compiler. Also thought a living doc would be a good medium. Is a newbie (to lower-level programming) needed to help with it? I just need to pair with a more advanced person who has worked on the compiler to write something up.
* FromGitter * TheLonelyGhost volunteers as tribute
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<TheGillies> When I try and do `{% for url in urls %}` I get `for expression must be an array, hash or tuple literal, not Var:`
<TheGillies> is there a way to iterate over vars in macros?
<FromGitter> <fridgerator> is it a macro var?
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> what is `urls`?
<TheGillies> it's an array of urls
<TheGillies> pass as arg to macro
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> might help to share a little more code
<FromGitter> <fridgerator> you cant reference non macro vars in side of a macro
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> and yeah … what he said
<TheGillies> that's essentially what im trying to do
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> urls is not a macro var
<TheGillies> yeah
<TheGillies> i figured
<TheGillies> doesn't really help me tho heh
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> remember macros are expanded at compile time, vars are run time
<TheGillies> Is it because of the splat?
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> in that case jobs is a macro var
<TheGillies> why is mine not a macro var and that one is?
<RX14> TheGillies, urls is a macro var inside the macro
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<RX14> however when you pass in the urls variable when you call the macro, that's a variable AST node
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<RX14> there's not much you can do with just a variable name
<TheGillies> Ok got it
<RX14> so you'd have to pass the %w{} literal directly in the macrop
<TheGillies> Makes sense
<TheGillies> Thanks
<RX14> so this expands correctly
<RX14> although I hope that example isn't the final code, it's much easier to do without a macro
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> sorry had to race out to pick up the little boy… and @RX14 has summed it up nicely
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> you could of course define `urls` as `URLS` instead … if thats what you really want
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> @TheGillies did you have a read of this https://crystal-lang.org/docs/syntax_and_semantics/macros.html (im assuming so)
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<TheGillies> Is there way to convert a var to a literal so I can use it in a macro?
<Papierkorb> TheGillies: no, a variable is *variable* in its value, you'd need a time machine to predict its value at compile time when the macro is evaluated
<Papierkorb> TheGillies: You can access constants though
<TheGillies> RX14: I'm messing around with parallel so I don't want to execute code beforehand that's why I'm using a macro
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<RX14> what?
<TheGillies> parallel(Foo.bar, Foo.baz) is there a way to pass in an arg to parallel macro or do I need actual AST?
<TheGillies> My problem is I don't know how many things I'm going to insert into parallel
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<RX14> I wish parallel was just a normal method
<RX14> it should be in all honesty
<RX14> i feel like it's possible
<TheGillies> but that code paste still needs to know number of urls beforehand
<FromGitter> <akzhan> is macro is definition like C preprocessor but AST level?
<Papierkorb> akzhan, something like that
<FromGitter> <akzhan> frm that point macro just transforms AST tree
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Soory but I’m newbee to Crystal so it’s my prediction
<RX14> macros take an AST as input and produce text as output (which is instantly parsed back into an AST)
<TheGillies> i guess since parallel is a macro and macros happen at compile time there is no way to do parallel against unknown urls
<RX14> so it's pretty much like an ASt transform
<RX14> however it does that by templating text which makes it a bit easier to use
<FromGitter> <akzhan> We need the hero.. hmm.. something like preprocessor output shower
<RX14> there's a `crystal tool expand` which should expand macros at a place
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Thanks @RX14. Just fit, but not yet inspected by me )
<TheGillies> Are there any mainstream programming languages that don't use english for the keywords, etc?
<Papierkorb> Do excel expressions count?
<TheGillies> seems like english really is the hegemony there heh
<FromGitter> <akzhan> None.
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> @papierkorb #excel hahaha :-)
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Yes, English is common modulo
<Papierkorb> there were a few tries to create a multi-"lingual" language, but all failed as far mainstream goes. it just greatly reduces interop. It only works, and even then only to an extent, if you have a really limited scope, and want to enable non-programmers to program. Like .. Excel.
<Papierkorb> I don't even know if I could open an english excel sheet, if it would translate the function names into German for me, or if it would blow up or whatever
<FromGitter> <akzhan> In Russia there are several programming languages based on Cyrillic, but nobody uses them outside the exUSSR, which is predictable
<TheGillies> It's rather ironic since a lot of mainstream languages don't have english speaking authors
<Papierkorb> Code comments are a different matter though
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Ruby yeah :)
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> @TheGillies did you read the code for #parallel
<TheGillies> johnjansen
<TheGillies> er johnjansen: yes
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> ok cool
<TheGillies> Tempted to just rewrite my own parallel as a function
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<FromGitter> <johnjansen> a function is easy to achieve
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> a macro happens at the wrong time for your use case (i believe)
<Papierkorb> I .. don't even know what parallel is good for
<FromGitter> <akzhan> use Future, Luck
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> we talked about it at code camp, but i cant remember what we decided
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> the notes might cover it
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<TheGillies> parallel is a good help for when you want to do like 50.times{do thing} 50.times{receive thing}
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> hmmm only if you know you have 50 things at compile time
<TheGillies> Yeah that's the problem
<TheGillies> I think it's a macro because it lets you put in raw code, which I guess it helpful but then it's a tradeoff
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> moreover its good for `my program has 4 parallel processes, that stand through the life of the app`
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> its really just a matter of boiler plate code for something that should be backgrounded
<TheGillies> yeah
<TheGillies> that's what I was thinking
<TheGillies> it's a generic background boiler plate macro
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> yes
<TheGillies> for things you know at compile time :P
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<FromGitter> <johnjansen> you probably should look at the expanded macro, which you can do by adding {{debug}} at the end of a copy of the macro
<TheGillies> what does "end of a copy of macro mean"
<TheGillies> like copy and paste then edit?
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> copy the macro code, and insert {{debug}} at the end of the macro method
<TheGillies> ok
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<TheGillies> undefined macro variable 'debug'
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> oops {{debug()}}
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> sorry
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> give your new macro a new name (like parallel_2) ;-)
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<TheGillies> This ended up being way more terse heh
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> well yes
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> and not compile time
<FromGitter> <akzhan> use at runtime ⏎ ⏎ ```code paste, see link``` ⏎ ⏎ I suppose [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=591f827d0a783b6c0ab72cb7]
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<FromGitter> <akzhan> I didn’t test it
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> same thing in the end
<FromGitter> <akzhan> you about wait all responses? i’m lazy to write
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Basics
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> @akzhan it literally results in the same code … `future` is a macro as follows https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/3c712288ba8f8138cb734e673cc622658300c229/src/concurrent/future.cr#L138
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> which tips out exactly what you typed ;-)
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Yes, of course ) it’s just extend )
<FromGitter> <akzhan> i’m unsure that vars got (urls) through macro, but idea and implemented. are same
<FromGitter> <akzhan> Just because I’m newbee and not yet jnow macros, but actively look into compiler/stdlib sources
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> macros replace (in place) code with boilerplate (pre-compilation) … hence, you cant use var values in macros (constants excluded) but the mentions of macros are preserved as per the template code
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> actually, wait … i retract all that, `future` is a method, not a macro
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> takes a block, instantiates and returns a future
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> that executes said block
<FromGitter> <akzhan> I’m dummy :))) ⏎ ⏎ ```def future(&exp : -> _) ⏎ Concurrent::Future.new &exp ⏎ end``` [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=591f85110a783b6c0ab733cb]
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> haha, no i am … but its beer-oclock, so i excuse myself
<FromGitter> <akzhan> i’m too :beers:
<FromGitter> <akzhan> it cannor be played I think. ⏎ ⏎ lets try to upsert require "http/client"
<FromGitter> <akzhan> So did it locally
<TheGillies> you can't require http in playground
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> yeah, use local … playground + http == ssl issue
<FromGitter> <akzhan> So you can’t use http client in playground
<FromGitter> <johnjansen> locally but not at play.crystal-lang.org
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