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Don't generate never called functions

giann

List and maps provided as default function argument or default object property value are cloned at runtime. We don't allow list/map containing themselves list and maps. We could allow it...

giann

Ref counting vs GC

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See if ref counting could be better than GC. To avoid freeing too often, we could table the freeing for when a threshold of garbage is reached.

giann

Ranges are syntaxic sugar to create list of integers. But when used in a `foreach` statement it should be expanded to a classic `for` statement: ```buzz foreach (int i in...

giann

Error stack is lost when a function is JIT compiled

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To reproduce: - `zig build -Djit_always_on` - `buzz -t tests/compile_errors/008-error-message.buzz`

giann

Remove implicit `this` argument

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Since buzz is supposed to be _unambiguous_ do we need implicit `this` argument for objects' methods? ```buzz object Person { str name, fun sayHello(str to) -> print("Hello {to} from {this.name}");...

giann

Field access doesn't need to rely on a name lookup at runtime. It could be an index generated at compile time juste like we do for locals.

giann

Right now std lib errors matches zig errors, most of them are too low-level for buzz: - [ ] Regroup errors that are too fine-grained for buzz - [ ]...

giann

Either declare an object as immutable: ```buzz immut object Point { int x, int y, } ``` And/Or declare an instance as immutable: ```buzz immut Point point = Point{ x...

giann

Immutability by default

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Should things be immutable (and private) by default? ```buzz str hello = "hello"; hello = "bye"; | fails var str hello = "hello"; hello = "bye"; | ok ```

giann