no harm done :-) Just to clarify, I didn't ask for a downloadable. I just wanted a sense of whether arc was converging or not and how the language evolved and

no harm done :-) Just to clarify, I didn't ask for a downloadable. I just wanted a sense of whether arc was converging or not and how the language evolved and what was learned. e.g: the decision to have constants in function call position return themselves. I would really love to know how that came about (though it maybe burdening Paul too much to ask him to write down how he came to that design decision :-) ) I find language design fascinating. One of my favorite books is Stroustroups' "The design of the C++ language". It is not often one can ask question while the language design/evolution is going on. The question wasn't intended to be "Is Arc ready?" but rather "what is your sense of where the language is going?" .