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Having a standard set ofwell documented things ready to go as if they were part of the core language, all with a single snazzy name, is soo important. I love this; Maybe it can become the new standard target. All it needs now is a good mascot or logo.

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Given the name, it probably has to be a chibi seal.

Could also use the face of the character from Tsukihime/Melty Blood.

the name means sky in French

Give the seal wings then

How do we make the wings look French?

Give them pencil mustaches and a cigarette.

Where is this documentation? Honestly I don't see much here. I'd call this a readme, not documentation.

How so?? You should have a sidebar with menu entries. Try on http://ciel-lang.org/#/libraries

oh, the sidebar disappears quickly when we scroll and it disappears when we click on "show me"… not great.

I was on mobile when I looked and I never saw the sidebar. Might be something that needs fixing. Love the project regardless.

There's a hamburger menu on the bottom left.

Hey vindarel, I don't get it:

ciel-user> (disassemble #'(lambda (x) (+ x 2)))

Error: Missing closing quotation in string (line 1):

(disassemble #'(lambda (x) (+ x 2)))

ciel-user> (disassemble (lambda (x) (+ x 2)))

; disassembly for (LAMBDA (X))

; Size: 35 bytes. Origin: #x54354A64

; (LAMBDA (X)

so, that's in the terminal REPL. Thanks for the report.

Meanwhile, you can use CIEL in your editor (as a library or with the core image), where you'll have a normal REPL and this will work.

Thanks! So it is a bug :-).

hey this bug is fixed! thanks

Follow-up: apparently there is a sidebar. In my defense, on mobile, the sidebar is closed by default, and you have to click the tiny hamburger menu in the very bottom left of the screen. I did not see this.

thank you (both) for the feedback. I added links to the documentation at the end of the landing page.

Another tip: hamburger menus are customarily at the top left: it would never occur to me to look for one in the bottom. It's more convenient to use where you put it, but convention trumps convenience when the convention is as strong as this.

It still looks weird to me at I'm not used to it, but the bottom is kinda better as it's easier to reach on a sizeable phone without resting the phone on some surface or using an additional hand.

Yeah, the other option is to leave it there but draw more attention to it (maybe make it a blue circle with white bars). The subtle menu only works in the right place, though.

Using an iPhone with rounded display corners, a few pixels of the last line of the “hamburger” are even off screen. I would never have seen it without the discussion in this thread.

It's linked on the GitHub front page, for some reason it's not in this link at all.

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