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A huge number of interesting ideas. High points for me: An elegant system for metadata which can be used to implement documentation, pretty printing, types, d
by emmett 18y ago
A huge number of interesting ideas. High points for me:
An elegant system for metadata which can be used to implement documentation, pretty printing, types, debugging, logging, and other such meta things.
Keyword arguments are baked in for free.
Direct read/write access to the environment as a map.
- tokipin 18y ago> Direct read/write access to the environment as a map. this is one of the things i like about Lua (which is listed there as a source of ideas) i definitely don't like the choice of square brackets though, it's very ugly and hard to read. they should have stuck with parens
- tac-tics 18y agoI do like the square brackets. They don't require holding down shift. And when you're writing the next killer app, and in the process, end up setting the world record for the longest string of subsequent ')' characters... that saves you a ton of stress on your pinky finger ;-)