Re:The Egison Programming Language
by Ultimatt on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:36PM
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Or in my fave language:
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Gonna go out on a limb and guess... Perl 6?
`my` gives away perl
infinite symbol gives away 6
So, yeah. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yup both right. All the clues were there >:3 I could have used Inf instead of the unicode but thats not really whimsical enough for Hacker News.
A slightly less listy pattern style is to declare types. Like I'd prefer this sort of declarative style:
subset Prime of Int where *.is-prime;
subset TwinPrime of Prime where (* + (2|-2)).is-prime;
my @twin_primes = grep TwinPrime, ^Inf;
Just feels a lot more clear what my intent is and I get some cheap types for later, to use in function parameters that require twin primes.