adamthekiwi99

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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   That's right! I think it's a good balance between giving the typechecker the info it needs, but also being flexible in how you can supply it!
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   Hello, thanks for the great question! Yes, you do have to specify where a variant comes from, but it doesn't have to be nominal at all! Here's an example: ``` enum Option<T> {Some(T), Nothing} // Create a value wit
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   I'll have to check it out and reimplement it's good features for THIS Sage hahaha
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   How long until we enumerate all the herbs?!?!?!?!?! The pantry's almost empty!!!
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   My major constraint is just that the name must lend itself well to artistic representations and fun mottos/slogans hahaha! I love these suggestions, especially Moss and Ivy! Thank you!
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   Hahaha I doubt there's an English word left!!!
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   Thanks for the great question, and for checking out the project! This project started out because I noticed some really interesting properties about compiling brainfuck-like programming languages while writing high level language compilers
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   I like it! And if that's trademarked too I could always fall back on "spearmint" instead haha
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   by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

   Thanks so much! I originally added it to experiment with the structural typing -- the type system is a really cool foundation for some awesome future stuff! Thanks for checking out the project, I'm glad I was able to surprise you haha!
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    by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

    Thank you!! Sage will eventually change its name (I just recently found out about this), but I haven't had time to come up with a good replacement name and make art + quippy sayings for it yet! :) I might just go with a completely made
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    by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

    Hello, yes, I'll go back and add some text examples as well. (I didn't like how GitHub does syntax highlighting though :/) I put all the example programs in text on the web-demo, though, if you want to see more there! You can
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    by adamthekiwi99 3y ago

    Right now, memory is managed like C or C++, but I intend to implement lifetimes in the frontend eventually. But definitely no garbage collection (although, a target could implement it against the standard and it would work) Thanks for check
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