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Author SHA1 Message Date
James Shubin
51cf1e2921 lang: ast: The res and edge names should not use exclusives
This removes the exclusive from the res names and edge names. We now
require that the names should be lists of strings, however they can
still be single strings if that can be determined statically.
Programmers should explicitly wrap their variables in a string by
interpolation to force this, or in square brackets to force a list. The
former is generally preferable because it generates a small function
graph since it doesn't need to build a list.
2024-04-18 00:07:53 -04:00
James Shubin
aae0e16350 lang: ast, parser, interfaces: Implementation of nested class sugar
This implements a new type of syntactic sugar for the common pattern of
a base class which returns a child class, and so on. Instead of needing
to repeatedly indent the child classes, we can instead prefix them at
the definition site (where created with the class keyword) with the name
of the parent class, followed by a colon, to get the desired embedded
sugar.

For example, instead of writing:

class base() {
	class inner() {
		class deepest() {
		}
	}
}

You can instead write:

class base() {
}
class base:inner() {
}
class base:inner:deepest() {
}

Of course, you can only access any of the inner classes by first
including (with the include keyword) a parent class, and then
subsequently including the inner one.
2024-01-14 17:10:31 -05:00