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00:37:36 <dsar> harrison, uhm this looks like a sort of metaprogramming, like the thesis of josef templ
00:39:21 <dsar> anyway, Oberon-07 goes too far
00:39:29 <dsar> there is no type aliasing for example
00:39:39 <dsar> TYPE Color = INTEGER; is not permitted
07:02:20 <harrison> eep
07:03:10 <harrison> metaprogramming or not it is wicked useful
07:03:43 <harrison> I found it by accident reading code
07:03:59 <harrison> some crypto mod used it
07:04:17 <harrison> I was like wtf 
07:05:45 <harrison> it allows compilation of code fragments on the fly
07:06:28 <harrison> in what I call anonymous modules
07:06:52 <harrison> not that they are in unnamed files lol
07:08:02 <harrison> but the module is never named in an import statement
07:09:00 <harrison> I hope I can show you the code someday 
07:09:39 <harrison> you seem to be the sort of person who would appreciate it
08:40:50 <tangentstorm> maybe we should start an #oberon channel :) 
08:55:47 <harrison> we could if there was anyone to talk to there but there wouldn't be
08:56:32 <tangentstorm> I used to live in these apartments. They were two old buildings next to each other.
08:56:40 <tangentstorm> Nobody knew each other. 
08:57:01 <tangentstorm> Everyone just went from their cars right into the building.
08:57:05 <tangentstorm> Then one day, a dude started smoking outside.
08:57:35 <tangentstorm> He'd sit outside on the steps and smoke, and so everyone had to walk past him to get into the building.
08:57:57 <tangentstorm> So he got to know everybody, and pretty soon people would stop and talk to him for a while.
08:58:39 <tangentstorm> What happened was that now those people hung around long enough that they were much more likely to be outside when someone else came in or out.
08:59:06 <tangentstorm> And so the smoking guy would introduce them, and pretty soon everybody knew each other.
08:59:40 <harrison> One person added a carrot and the whole thing snowballed
08:59:45 <harrison> delicious stone soup
08:59:58 <tangentstorm> Anyway, if you want an oberon community, you start by just hanging out there, and saying hi when people show up. :)
09:00:07 <harrison> you may join #spasim if you like
09:00:08 <tangentstorm> there are two people already in the channel now :)
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15:12:37 <Mat2> Hi !
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16:16:08 <crc> good evening
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