I'm not sure what the deal is with my new car. It must look fast or something. I've gotten pulled over for speeding more times in the past week with the new car than I did in 9 years with the old. Warnings only thankfully. It's not as though I'm driving any differently. Seriously troopers, it's pro…

Just a little work today. I implemented something mildly weird. For those familiar with C++, Tangent supports a form of operator(). It's something like:

public class foo{
    public    this()=>void{
        print "foo!";
    }
}

public static    main()=>void{
    local foo aFoo = new foo;

    aFoo()…

Part 1

The change so that private fields get their own storage is finished. I need to review some of the other visibility related things (name lookup for standalone fields, method dispatch) to finish that snippet of changes. Then will be a release.

A nice side effect of this private field storage cha…

Sorry for the lack of updates. My car died the end of last week, so a lot of my time went to procuring and then enjoying a new car. To be honest, mostly to the enjoyment; buying it was quick and painless. 2009 Impreza 5-door (non-WRX) for those curious. It is a retired rental car, so I got it at a …

The first part of my bulldozer refactoring is complete. The core library for Tangent was a mess because I just added things along as I went. Plus I'm lazy and don't have great practices even when I'm not lazy. As a result the core library was 7200 lines of code across a mere 8 files. Bleh! Even I h…

After exceptions work, the next step is the using block. The syntax is slightly different from C#. You can't have two elements in a using block (I forgot/didn't know you could even do that). And you can't just put a single expression after the using bit. Only the actual block, or another using segm…

Spent some time last night implementing exceptions. Nothing too special here. try/throw/catch/finally as they exist in C#. Under the hood, I just use the existing exception mechanism to do the delivery, and wrap exceptions so that the runtime can distinguish between exceptions raised in the runtime…

Dictionaries are now iterable in working code. .NET reflection is odd when it deals with stuff that is generic, but does not itself contain the generic parameters. It never really seems to refer to the source of the parameter, and once bound you can't really tell that one was there. This didn't int…

I think that I'm going to do a little polish/bugfixes for an intermediary release. Then there's going to be a pile of refactoring that needs to be done. After that I think that I might aim to get Tangent (optionally) compiling into C# source rather than the current hacky VM. The VM is dog slow, alb…

The documentation process continues. I went through a good number of the Rosetta Code entries, and created Tangent example code wiki entries for them. There's now about 8 times the example code entries for random programmers to view (even if most of them a simple, isolated feature examples).