I see milestone 1 on the horizon. Tangent now compiles raw source into code-dom-ish sort of structures which can be run. Type declarations are still hardcoded, and method groups have a bug where they don't get default initialized. Once that bug is fixed and I see code work I'll hit milestone one. A…

Work on Tangent progresses more rapidly now. I have the infrastructure in place and tested... a little independently. But now I have 5 disparate parts (parsing, tokens, type inference, types, code-dom-ish stuff) and none of them work together. They're well designed though, so the steps of stringin…

One of the kinda awkward problems in C# is the lack of a 'numeric' constraint for lack of a better definition. If you make a generic T, you can't do a+b since they might be objects... or something else where that doesn't make sense. And you can't provide a type constraint since int/float/etc don't …

Generics are a pain to implement. Or rather generic methods (as most languages implement them) complicate matters quite a bit. I had one implementation that worked, but made generic methods infeasible as other languages implement them (a simple replacement akin to C++ style templates for type expre…

Progress on Tangent continues slowly. I added support for member access and parenthetical expressions to the code that takes a series of tokens and builds a sane abstract syntax tree.

(where string a,b,c and (string,string) tupleab are defined)

c = a + b;
c = string.concat tupleab;
c = string.concat(a,…

I have today off and completely for my own use. I'm not a big fan of vacations, and using my time for just a personal day is so nice.

This morning then was work on Tangent. Whimsy pushed me to work on simple parsing for expressions. Not quite sure why since it's not the next step in the work (thoug…

One of the key desires which evolved with my toy language Tangent was to allow fairly arbitrary operators. As long as a method met a certain signature, the language should allow it to be used as an operator.

This moves a lot of the expression parsing from the parser proper into the syntax checking p…

(true(),false()) select bool() == Ambiguous - True:True
(true(),false()) select false() == false() - True:True
(true(),false()) select true() == true() - True:True
(true(),false()) select null() == Undefinded - True:True
(true(),void(true)) select true() == true() - True:True
(true(),void(true)) select…

WARNING: There may be naughty words that follow. You've been warned.

I've had a little bit of a rough time getting to where I am. I made the mistake of not studying computer science in college. Then I made the mistake of going to college early (before I was ready as it turns out), and did not finish…

In honor of this little tangent I'm taking in doing something useful, I've decided to name the little hobby language 'Tangent' until I can think of something better.

So far I've accomplished quite a bit. Unfortunately the vast majority of that is proving that I am indeed an idiot. The rest is mostly…