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Re:Lily Programming Language by hawski on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:29AM (#12016281)
I always dreamed of language without operator overloading, but with builtin vectors and matrices. Maybe they could be easily mapped to SIMD instructions. They can have a bit different operator (like in one PEP [1]).

I know that there are intrinsics for C, but they are non portable. Maybe except NaCl [2].

Also is concatenation of strings only done through usage of $"^(variable)" syntax?

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0465/

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/reference/pnacl-c...

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Re:Lily Programming Language by jesserayadkins2 on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:25AM (#12016849)
It's probably possible, especially with today's compilers being smarter about using those instructions. You're right, in that concat is currently only available through interpolation.

At the moment, I'm not interested in adding vectors or SIMD. It's something I might try further down the line, but not now.

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