Introducing JMaki Charting / January 21, 2007

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January/2007

January 21, 2007

Introducing jMaki Charting

category: Developers

jMaki Charting is a BSD based open source project focusing on providing jMaki enabled widgets for charting.

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Stephen Colebourne: Closures - Last-line-No-SemiColon nastiness

category: Developers

The BGGA closures proposal currently plans to use a last-line-no-semi-colon to return the result of the closure back to the closure-defining method. I personally find this rather nasty. What about an alternative?

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Stephen Colebourne: Closures - Last-line-No-SemiColon - Part 2

category: Developers

Neal Gafter replied to yesterdays post about last-line-no-semicolon nastiness to say that Id got BGGA syntax wrong. Damn! Unfortunately, I dont think that fixing the syntax to be BGGA solves the issue I was highlighting.

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Stephen Colebourne: Closures - Control-invocation syntax

category: Developers

The BGGA closures proposal includes a control-invocation syntax for calling closures. This is viewed as a convenient way to call some closure-control-methods (APIs). Unfortunately, the use cases envisaged in the proposal seem too limited to me.

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