Have you guys seen this site: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ ? I think such a section would be nice to have in the docs section ( I'm sorry and would be very ashamed if this already exists and I didn't find it ). Even though I'm new to Fantom, I'd love to contribute.

What do you think?

Never seen that site, but seems like there are a lot of those sorts of things.

The more examples of Fantom code out there the better!

I started to add stuff from PLEAC. You can find them at DZone snippets, under the tag Fantom: http://snippets.dzone.com/tag/fantom . I started with the array section, hopefully I can post many of them this weekend. If you guys have any suggestions about the code, I'd be glad to hear them.

Nice idea. Though I must ask, why are your code snippets made into classes? If I recall Fantom doesn't require you to make classes, you can just make scripts (unless you are required to use the default way of doing things).

Some examples like printing lists with commas are pointless since by default List.toStr already does that.

About the classes ... Java habit I guess. And the printing with commas, the example in the cookbook turned a list like [1,2,3] in "1,2 , and 3".

If I recall Fantom doesn't require you to make classes, you can just make scripts

You can't run code in a vacuum. Even in a script, all code is run within a class.

What makes a Fantom script a script is that you do not need to compile it to a pod file. But the actual source must be valid Fantom source code, meaning the only top-level entities allowed are using statements, classes, mixins, and pod declarations.

Yeah, I know. What I meant that his classes in his snippets were unnecessary. PLEAC is a cookbook not a programming guide so omitting classes is almost recommended (at least in the simple cases).

My vision of some of code samples (modifying your examples), I believe this is more fantomy:

Custom Sorting a list

/* let's sort the list by the numbers contained in each word */
a := ["String10","String9","String1","String2","String4"]
a.sort |one, two| { one[6..-1].toInt <=> two[6..-1].toInt }
echo(a)

Sorting an array numerically

echo([4,3,2,5,7,9,21,1].sort)

Finding all elements in an array matching certain criteria

a := [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
/* let's find all numbers that are dividable by 3 */
dividableBy3 := a.findAll |e| { e % 3 == 0}

randomStrings := ["one3943two","three9430four","five"]
r := Regex <|(\d+)|>
/* let's find all the words that also contain digits
   the array should contain "one3943two" and "three9430four" */
containingDigits := randomStrings.findAll |str| { r.matcher(str).find() }
echo(containingDigits)

Printing a list with commas

result := list[0..<-1].join(", ") + ", and $list.last"

Awesome!

When I get back from work I'll edit them. I'm almost done with the arrays chapter. If anyone wants to start with one of the chapters, that would be nice as well.

I just stumbled across Fantom for the first time today - I've been learning Scala and quite enjoyed reading about Fantom as another language promoting the functional style.

To get my hands dirty, I've been tackling some of the problems from Langref - mainly starting with Strings and Numbers.

Unfortunately langref doesn't (currently) have a section for Fantom, but if anyone's interested in seeing any of the snippets, I'd be happy to share them here or elsewhere.

Andy

Why don't you put them on http://snippets.dzone.com?

Good idea :-) All now up here: DZone

Andy