Generics — just around the corner

The last few posts were about NLT only but Skila things were move forward as well. I added value and reference types with control of data mutability. So for example:

func getconst() const Foo = new Foo();

func readconst()
do
  var x = getconst();
end

It will work if “Foo” is value type (because all data from the function “getconst” will be copied) but it won’t work if “Foo” is reference type, because in such case only a reference is passed — one could still alter the data obtained from “getconst”.

I am aware that I missed a lot of cases but I will fix the bugs as I will implement next, and probably the last major feature before I make first upload of Skila — generics. I need it to provide arrays, tuples and IEnumerable interface. Those in turn will be required when implementing macro constructors.

My schedule looks like this:

• think over the constructor naming — maybe instead ”func Init” it would be better to have just “constructor”,
• polish “const/var/!” syntax — the mutable methods are denoted by “!” in front of their names, but objects are marked with ”var”,
• add shuffle feature to NLT parser,
• implement true generator for NLT,
• add generics to Skila,
• toss arrays, tuples and IEnumerable,
• finish with macro constructors.

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