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# TODO items
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## General code cleanup
- standardize on an error type that isn't String
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## Reduction
- make a good type for actual language builtins to avoid string comparisons
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## Typechecking
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- make a type to represent types rather than relying on string comparisons
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- look at https://rickyhan.com/jekyll/update/2018/05/26/hindley-milner-tutorial-rust.html
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- cf. the notation mentioned in the cardelli paper, the debug information for the `typechecking` pass should
print the generated type variable for every subexpression in an expression
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- think about idris-related ideas of multiple implementations of a type for an interface (+ vs * impl for monoids, for preorder/inorder/postorder for Foldable)
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-should have an Idris-like `cast To From` function
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## Schala-lang syntax
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-idea: the `type` declaration should have some kind of GADT-like syntax
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- Idea: if you have a pattern-match where one variant has a variable and the other lacks it
instead of treating this as a type error, promote the bound variable to an option type
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- Include extensible scala-style html"string ${var}" string interpolations
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- A neat idea for pattern matching optimization would be if you could match on one of several things in a list
ex:
```if x {
is (comp, LHSPat, RHSPat) if comp in ["==, "<"] -> ...
}```
- Schala should have both currying *and* default arguments!
```fn a(b: Int, c:Int, d:Int = 1) -> Int
a(1,2) : Int
a(1,2,d=2): Int
a(_,1,3) : Int -> Int
a(1,2, c=_): Int -> Int
a(_,_,_) : Int -> Int -> Int -> Int
```
- scoped types - be able to define a quick enum type scoped to a function or other type for
something, that only is meant to be used as a quick bespoke interface between
two other things
ex.
```type enum {
type enum MySubVariant {
SubVariant1, SubVariant2, etc.
}
Variant1(MySubVariant),
Variant2(...),
}```
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- inclusive/exclusive range syntax like .. vs ..=
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## Compilation
-look into Inkwell for rust LLVM bindings
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-https://cranelift.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest<Paste>
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## Other links of note
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- https://nshipster.com/never/
-consult http://gluon-lang.org/book/embedding-api.html
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## Playing around with conditional syntax ideas
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- if/match playground
simple if
`if x == 1.0 { "a" } else { "b" }`
one comparison multiple targets:
`if x == { 1.0 -> "a", 2.0 -> "b", else -> "c" }`
different comparison operators/ method calls:
`if x { == 1.0 -> "a", eq NaN -> "n", .hella() -> "h", else -> "z" }`
pattern matching/introducing bindings:
`if alice { .age < 18 -> "18", is Person("Alice", age) -> "${age}", else -> "none" }`
pattern matching w/ if-let:
`if person is Person("Alice", age) { "${age}" } else { "nope" }`
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-https://soc.github.io/languages/unified-condition-syntax syntax:
`if <cond-expr>" then <then-expr> else <else-expr>`
`if <half-expr> \n <rest-expr1> then <result1-expr> \n <rest-expr2> then <result-expr2> else <result3-expr>`
-and rest-exprs (or "targets") can have 'is' for pattern-matching, actually so can a full cond-expr
UNIFIED IF EXPRESSIONS FINAL WORK:
basic syntax:
`if_expr := if discriminator '{' (guard_expr)* '}'`
`guard_expr := pattern 'then' block_or_expr'`
`pattern := rhs | is_pattern`
`is_pattern := 'is' ???`
`rhs := expression | ???`
if the only two guard patterns are true and false, then the abbreviated syntax:
`'if' discriminator 'then' block_or_expr 'else' block_or_expr`
can replace `'if' discriminator '{' 'true' 'then' block_or_expr; 'false' 'then' block_or_expr '}'`