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Just to clarify, with `kind of functional` I meant pattern matching and its "purity" making it difficult to express `continue` without resorting to "hacks" like `builtin` :wink: (though in a...

Anything non-ASCII is a no go for many reasons. And regarding the mentioned reasons for changing `is` to something else I don't find them as decisive as they sound. Despite...

> I wonder if the problem is not what default representation for real, ie should it be binary or decimal. I'd definitely go also for decimal FP as I feel...

Newbie here. I've just read the XL history and I'm still a bit confused about state of things regarding compilation with static types to a native binary. Because XL is...

Ok, I understand. >...An option would be to remove not. There are other ideas. None I like. Could you point me to those ideas? Generally it'll need to be some...

How about combining this with more coarse grained memory management? Seeing how Tao3D "concepts" nicely composed in the presentations app etc., what about making memory management explicit by providing a...

After short experimentation I found out the `memblock` would be very annoying (I've tried to write some sketch code with that in mind and it turned out horrible). I turns...

One thing I forgot to mention - because management of heap memory can be seen as manual "cache" management, the same ORC-like garbage collection can be used also for seamless...

Thanks for your thoughts! >In all cases, extremely complicated problems, and the game is to find what are the simplest primitives that lets you build the rest. For control flow,...

> * I'm not entirely sure about the `LoopVar` declaration yet (whether you can modify through it). There are pros and cons. This can have something to do with immutability....