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Syntax

  • Infix?
  • Whitespace-aware, but not required (implicit {})

Features

  • Static single assignment
  • Anonymous closures
  • No implicit finalizers
  • Memory-only GC
  • Full C integration:
    • register-width integers
    • C strings
    • foreign thread callbacks
  • Ad-hoc or Haskell style interfaces

Primitives

  • Arbitrary precision integers
  • Double precision floating points
  • Unicode strings
  • Byte arrays
  • Haskell-style lists
  • Clojure-style "roped" dicts

Backends

  • Bytecode or prefix-AST and provided interpreter
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