Oscar Campbell

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Issue for tracking progress on documentation in general.

Ok, with the "new" braces as part of the near future plan, it's time to shape up the fringes of Onyx syntax flow. I basically implemented the whole parser basics...

While coding on a one-off physics simulation, in Onyx, for a device I'm constructing, I realized something that would be helpful for such advanced-excel-work'ish scripts / one-off simulations / scientific...

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I'm not sure I've even implemented this B-) I'll look this evening.

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# Delimiter Syntax for Generic Parameters / Arguments I've implemented both `` _and_ `[]` as generic parametrization delimiters. The reason for this _at first_ was to make it possible to...

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# Standard Types - Namings _**NOTE** - this is only partially implemented currently, and so, it's mostly a discussion of how/what to actually implement._ Since Onyx uses Crystal stdlib, there...

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# Exception Handling It's rather straight forward. Keywords vary a bit between languages. I'm more used to "catch" than "rescue", but when I saw it, it quickly grew on me....

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Tuple-syntax has been disturbing me for a while, but since switching to parentheses would make code very cloudy at best, I haven't gotten anywhere. Fortunately, the issue was raised in...

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# UFCS (Uniform Function Call Syntax) I'm eager to do this, but it requires lengthy discussion and then quite some work, turning some things inside and out and up and...

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Note this issue only goes into the surface of constructs: the lexical aspects, for type-definition, etc. there are separate "Doc / RFC"-issues. There are some `[RFC]` markers in this text,...

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