03:28 <SeanTAllen> Schwarzbaer: you can rely on it between any two points but dont rely on it when more than 2 points are involved

03:29 <SeanTAllen> a point being an individual actor

06:45 <Guest19095> helo

12:14 <SeanTAllen> hello Guest19095

17:28 <krig> hey everyone, in an attempt to learn pony I started doing the advent of code challenges. It's a bit of a struggle so far, and I'm sure I'm making it harder than it needs to be...

17:28 <krig> in case anyone has any comments on something I'm obviously doing in a roundabout way, the first two solutions are here: https://github.com/krig/advent

19:54 <SeanTAllen> krig: aturley has also been doing: https://github.com/aturley/advent-of-code-2017

21:04 <mson> How do I convert a U8 into a character in the english language? I’m trying to print and am getting e.g. 97 where I want ‘a’.

21:08 <slfritchie> mson: What is your print/write/whatever function call look like?

21:10 <mson> slfritchie: in a nested for loop over a map of maps, I have _env.out.print(char.string()), where char: U8

21:14 <slfritchie> Have you tried`String.from_array()`?

21:20 <slfritchie> Or just put your U8's into an array? https://stdlib.ponylang.org/builtin-StdStream says that the `print()` method can use `Array[U8 val]`. (See also the ByteSeq type alias)

21:22 <mson> slfritchie: putting each into an array just before printing worked, thanks!

21:22 <slfritchie> Spiffy

22:09 <SeanTAllen> krig: are you around?

22:09 <SeanTAllen> based on your PR against pony patterns I think you misunderstood part of the notifier pattern and when you are around sometime, I'd like to take to you about it to figure out how it could be clarified.