At least the most cursory of generics now work in source:

public class foo{
    public T x;
}

public static void main(){
    local foo<int> bar = new foo<int>;
 
    bar.x = 5;
//  bar.x = "foo!";                // error, no assignment to int from string.
    print bar.x;

    local foo<string…

My main dev machine ran into some problems a few days back. Windows would flash and generally not be interactive, making it pretty useless. The login screen and alt-ctrl-del screen worked well, so I put the problem in with the video card/driver (since I'm using vista). A reinstall of the drivers di…

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New Tangent release is out. The link is for the release page describing some of the additions since you could last toy around with the language. It still mostly sucks, but has some new and interesting things I've not seen offered elsewhere. Compliments are welcome; bug reports or suggestions fo…

I fixed up a lot of the brokenness caused by the const addition. The pi and maze testapps work again.

More importantly, these sort of things will now provide you with an error (and not cause ambiguity errors when paired with a valid option like properties often cause):

4 = 2;
int = string;
* = /;

main =…

Tangent at last seems to have lost some steam. A distinct desire to play games and added workplace workload and a visit from the family have conspired to leave me with little time and motivation to work on the language. There's about a half dozen mildly hairy changes that should get done before the…

Whimsy drove me from productive stuff towards profiling stuff. The maze app (last post) is indeed spending 60-70% of its time on what amounts to a single method call. It's not actually the dynamic invoke on a MethodInfo (like I suspected) but simply creating storage for the return value from a .NET…

Beginning Compilation.
Imports complete. 30 types exist.

Compilation Complete.
Time Elapsed: 00:00:01.1542230

################################################################################# 
#.....#...............#...#...........#.....#...............#.....#.............# 
###.#.#.###########.#.#.#.#.#…

Sorry folks, no maze output tonight. I spent the night (and half of last night) hunting one bug. The bug manifested itself in double-lists: List> but only when Tangent types were involved. List> worked fine. The symptom was that the second indexer call would crap out in method group invoke sa…

Had some time tonight (and more importantly, some motivation) and worked through the maze gen. It doesn't quite run yet. Fixed two bugs, one with default initializers and complex types (this-method instances), another where a returned instance's indexers were ignored. I've still got an elusive bug …

Tiny update. The bug from the last post has been found and killed. The problem wasn't with nested type parameterization (that works fine). The problem was that when Tangent instances go into .NET, they go as the underlying .NET instance of all Tangent instances. Tangent then handles the type safety…