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Ostrum

A simple, lisp-like, and functional language for experimenting with making a language.

Variable declarations

Variables are declared on the stack, declaring one can be done with the = function. Variables are marked as being constant upon being assigned, and cannot be reassigned again within the current function. The assignment function takes two arguments, name:String and value:Any. Since it's just a function, you can pass in a variable for the name to have dynamically resolved names within the current scope.

Assigning to a variable example:

(= "someNumber" 1337)

Accessing variables

Acessing variables within the scope chain can be done by using the @ function. It takes

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