Monthly Archives: October 2013

Unified member access and interfaces

This last article told us that there is now two ways to read a member (or element in an array): through a method that returns the value directly, or through a method that returns an alias to it. As for … Continue reading

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Unified member access

State of sool An early design decision in sool was that member access ans indexing operations were all method calls behind the scenes. On top of that, method call with no arguments can be written without parentheses, which makes it … Continue reading

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The great overhaul

Keep it simple, stupid. Let’s see if we can do that: core is simple, add a bit of sugar on top. Functions So we have functions. Let’s see how that works. function Foo,Bar do_it(Meh arg) end This makes a function … Continue reading

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sool’s identity crisis

Pun intended. Yes, really. What’s the problem? Not a problem, really, just a time to sit back, and figure out what sool has become, albeit conceptually. It started as “Lua with static typing”. And this lead to a waterfall of … Continue reading

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