Orca

Copperbox revision 3002.

Initial work adding late binding of "dull" parameters through the Reader environment.

orca

Copperbox revision 3001.

I've added a wrapper monad over the Orca monad. The wrapper monad is a Reader / environment monad although it won't use the regular Reader interface as it intends to simulate environment acquisition.

orca

Copperbox revision 3000.

I've implemented a new revision of Orca that simplifies the syntax builder monad. The intention is to then wrap this monad again in a Reader that simulates "environment acquisition" - so the dull parameters like table index for oscillators can be acquired from the environment rather than taken directly from function parameters. This should make the parameter lists of functions smaller (thus hopefully clearer) and allow late binding (so hopefully configuration is more flexible).

pretty-expr-hpj

Copperbox revision 2999.

I've added initial support for pretty printing ternary operators like C's (_ ? _ : _). The code is untested and possibly wrong as it is a new feature not present in Norman Ramsey's original code.

pretty-expr-hpj

Copperbox revision 2998.

I've done some clean up work on the code as I'm planning to add support for ternary (and possibly mixfix) operators.

flea circus

Copperbox revision 2996.

Move the Lua code (flea_motion and flea_circus)  into the directory art_sound/lua.


Copperbox revision 2997.

mcommand - experiment with Missile Command (cursor!) style player control.


Side Note

Sadly my application to Light Night has been turned down - so work has stopped on the flea circus. Back to Haskell...

flea circus

Copperbox revision 2994.

I've reworked the flea stack so it grows only from the top. This means that a fair amount of game play is now "working". It also illustrates that the current game play isn't up to scratch - I'm still going to need a lot of design work.

Update - revision 2995.

Minor changes to the player speed to reduce the arc of a jump. 

flea circus

Copperbox revision 2993.

I've fixed some glitches where the stack of fleas wasn't being animated. Most heinously was I was calling self.play('...') rather than self:play('...') - the former causes a silent fail. Also I had some issues calling self (or not) in the class constructors.

Lua angst

Tonight I needed to use the Lua interpreter (mostly I run from Love) and it seems that Lua for Windows hadn't set an inadequate path when it installed.

The environment variable LUA_PATH in the control panel was just "C:\Program Files\lua\5.1\lua" but this means the Lua interpreter won't be able to load modules in the current directory when used interactively.

I had to prefix the path with "?;?.lua" - i.e. "?;?.lua;C:\Program Files\Lua\5.1\lua"

Question mark is the wildcard for Lua, the interpreter swaps it for the module name. Semicolon is the "path" separator, though apparently Lua doesn't have much of a notion of paths.


I couldn't find mention of this problem through various frustrated web searches, so I'm posting it here. I expect all Lua coders already know that the LUA_PATH should include "?;?.lua".