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Start the Day 1 excercises for Io and document the interactive stuff
author | IBBoard <dev@ibboard.co.uk> |
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date | Tue, 05 Sep 2017 21:00:21 +0100 |
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# Calling "functions" is sending a "message" (right) to an object (left) # ↓ object ↓ message "Hi ho, Io" print # Object creation is by cloning and modifying root "Object" object # Convention appears to be that classes start with capitals Vehicle := Object clone # ":=" creates a "slot" (which can be a value or a function?), whereas "=" assigns to existing ones Vehicle description := "A description of our vehicle" # So this would fail because the slot doesn't exist - we'll repeat it at the end to stop it crashing our program too early! # Vehicle another_field = "This won't work" # Fetching values is just calling the function (but we need an extra "print" to print to stdout) Vehicle description print # In addition to the slot we created, there is a default slot called "type" # (and presumably some default messages, because slotNames apparently isn't a slot!) Vehicle slotNames print Vehicle type print Object type print Vehicle another_field = "This won't work"