More documentation work. Methods and most of Phrases (and other unusual method declarations) done.

Busy weekend. Took some time to update and flesh out the documentation, finishing out statements. As always, feedback from various levels of programmers is helpful.

I took some time tonight to nuke the last showstopper bugs so that I could make a midpoint release of Tangent. There's still plenty of bugs, but it'd been too long since a release. Not that anyone is downloading it, but one less excuse.

This release adds:

- A tiny command line compiler to the package…

Not much Tangent work recently. Partly I've been demotivated by work demotivation. Partly I've been caught up in a game playing swing. Partly, I've been dreading a bug that I found. The reference code is a slightly modified version of the dice example app:

public class	RollOfDice{
	public delegate		…

I recently got back into playing Magic: the Gathering after some years away. The game has improved greatly since my departure, so kudos there but not what prompts a journal entry today.

Something I found out about today was this article by one of the card designers that describes the three archetyp…

The example code below (plus one semi-colon) now works. A few other things now do not work, and I'm sure to have created a slew of bugs by just hacking stuff until this works. But it should be a net gain I think... questions, criticisms and the such about the last post's code certainly welcome.

I'm…

Got to do a little work on the dice example tonight. To me, it was pretty straightforward to construct the classes/methods to make the tiny DSL beginnings like I wanted. Not sure if that will translate well to other programmers. Found a few bugs doing it; they're more of an impediment at this point…

Not much Tangent work recently. Social nicety and work anxiety have sapped time and motivation. Whimsy has driven me towards a little example project. This is not a terrible event because I've not done enough stuff to shake out bugs and get a good feel for the language from a 'writing code in it' s…

After doing some of my own ruminations on the subject, I made a post to the community at large to get some input/ideas for enums. Most people seem as if they'd be fine with C# enums. I don't think I'd be fine with C# enums in Tangent.

I'm not completely sold on their design yet, but the current basi…

Had the day off to take care of some errands. I tend to lack motivation, so recharge days are vital. Then I spent a whole lot of time banging my head against stupid bugs and little awkward problems. So not a lot of progress...

Then I got fed up with it and implemented new stuff. A whole 5 minutes la…