Lingdong Huang

[ANNOUNCEMENT] The official Wenyan Book! 📖 🎉

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Hi all! After working on it for 3 months, I'm excited to announce that the first draft of 《文言陰符：文言文編程入門》, *Introduction to Programming in Wenyan* is available! It is an introduction...

[BRAINSTORM] Translation of Terminology & Nomenclature

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This issue is dedicated to the discussion of translation of programming concepts into 文言. Please contribute by posting your translation in a comment, and the collaborators will add them to...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] wenyan Snippet Site

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As mentioned in #459, I'm building a website where people can create, edit, browse, share, fork, run, embed, like, dislike, etc., user-created snippets in wenyan language. ### [https://wenyan-snippets.glitch.me/](https://wenyan-snippets.glitch.me/) Currently I...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Try-Catch block

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Hi everyone, as requested by #275 and #358 , try-catch is here! Here is an overview of the syntax: ``` 姑妄行此。 嗚呼。「「滅頂」」之禍。 如事不諧。豈「「ReferenceError」」之禍歟。 吾有一言。曰「「本無此物。奈何用之」」。書之。 豈「「SyntaxError」」之禍歟。 吾有一言。曰「「不合文法。不通之甚」」。書之。 豈「「TypeError」」之禍歟。 吾有一言。曰「「物各其類。豈可混同」」。書之。 豈「「滅頂」」之禍歟。 吾有一言。曰「「嗚呼哀哉。伏维尚飨」」。書之。...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] WONTON - JSON-ish Object Serialization

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# WONTON *Wenyan's Own Number, Text & Object Notation* Inspired by #539 (thanks!), An object serialization method made its way to wenyan-lang STDLIB 🚀 The parser/serializer is written in **pure...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] (Experimental) Macros

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As you might (not) have noticed, *wenyan-lang* strives to be more readable (for ancient Chinese people). **Macros** provide syntactic sugars to bring the 文采 of your code to the next...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Language Spec & New IDE

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## Language Spec Issue #1 is finally resolved! wenyan-lang now has a (relatively complete) [specification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_specification) written in [ANTLR](https://www.antlr.org) (thanks @jiangzoi) 🎉. This also means that parsers in other langauges can...

Thanks to everyone who contributed their ideas, a selection of proposed new syntaxes are now added in dc87cf97373b633c5b69c22dc5b7e363f03f0b24: | js/c++ | wenyan | issue | |-|-|-| | `continue` | `乃止是遍`...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Static Typecheck & Type Inference

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As another step toward a strongly-typed language with a functional flavor, wenyan-lang now supports ML style [static typechecking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system#Static_type_checking) and [inference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference). When the option is turned on, the compiler will now...

燻 is mistaken as 煉

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As pointed out in https://github.com/wenyan-lang/book/issues/23 by @747 (Thanks!) Reminder for myself to fix it.