I have basic phrases working again with the new syntax:

public static 	foo()=>void{
	print "foo.";
}

public static	bar(string s)=>void{
	print s;
}

public static	baz(string s, int i)=>void{
	print s i;
}

public static	phrase(string s) (int i)=>void{
	print s i;
}

public static 	main()=>void{
	foo…

Not dead. Mostly. Last week was sacrificed to the flu. Re-working a large/nasty method continues. Operators work again, and I found a few little bugs that never worked in the first place. Operators are now auto-detected by where you put the name of the method in the phrase:

foo(int x, int y) => i…

So much for all that time during the week I was going to have to work on the Tangent cleanup... I did get a little time this morning and added a small feature that's going to be needed with the changes to how method declarations are dealt with.

In 0.25 you can specify literal identifiers to be par…

Before we get to coding work, news and opinions. My workplace laid off a small percentage of its workforce. Mostly the most expensive workforce (definitely not me!). Unfortunately that tends to be the most skilled of the workforce. How a company can continue to survive such clearly braindead execut…

My work at making generators able to be declared as phrases took a little detour today when I realized that I couldn't read the build method code anymore. Making phrases work was a good deal of hackery; copy/paste/edit/tweak until it worked. Type parameterization and yield got added onto that. The …

(see below for the problem in detail)

The bug has been squashed. The problem was in the loop element; during the upgrade of them to properly deal with yield-blocks I made a mistake in how the predicate is processed. It was doing:

while( predicate && I'm not supposed to yield control ){
    do …

After 40 minutes in a debugger tracing through 'bytecode' (not really bytecode, but elemental runtime stuff), I found that the inner generator was at 1 by the time main printed 0. So somewhere the inner generator was being run twice before the outer generator actually returned control to main.

Make…

After a late awakening, I set into work on Tangent. As a warmup, I added support for the modulo operator (%). Takes two ints, returns the remainder; no big deal. Then came adding an automatic return at the end of yield blocks so the last value wasn't yielded twice. No problem.

I then figured that I …

I've unfortunately been busy the past week with social nicety and recouping from yield. I fixed up a little left over bug with it, and have (nearly) the entire weekend to myself for Tangent work. I added a wiki entry for coming features in the next release (and linked in the journal header).

First s…

Tonight I had a tiny bit of spare time to devote to tracking down the yield bug. Turned out to be three little bugs. The first was a mistake in pulling the stackframes off during the actual yield call. It kept the top frame pointing to itself for restart rather than just letting it restart. The sec…