Hubble Starts to Wake Up
When recovering from some kind of mental overload, I often fall into my old patterns of thinking about programming languages. Today is no exception!
Generally, when we talk about programming languages, we usually mean things like, C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, etc. I think that, over time, this narrow definition of what a programming [...]Posted by on under whirl, languages | 
It’s been a long time since I wrote any code purely for fun - but I recently finished just such a project.
Pretty much ever since I heard about LLVM I’ve wanted to do something with it. The obvious choice was to build a compiler for one of my esoteric languages. Well, I finally got around [...]Posted by on under object oriented design, design dilemmas |
[ Concrete or Abstract or Tool ]
A concrete Box object may represent an actual on-screen box where if you adjust the x or y properties of the object, the on-screen box moves and if you remove or delete the Box object, the visible box goes away. An abstract Box object may simply be a container [...]Posted by on under objective c, array, interface, languages |
Today I was experimenting with Objective-C’s blocks so I thought I’d be clever and add to NSArray a few functional-style collection methods that I’ve seen in other languages: @interface NSArray (FunWithBlocks)
- (NSArray *)collect:(id (^)(id obj))block;
- (NSArray *)select:(BOOL (^)(id obj))block;
- (NSArray *)flattenedArray;
@end The collect: method takes a block which is called for each item in the array and [...]