Allow global execution or not? about -g-pl

[yate]

i'm for top level, for the pro listed (and easier to parse maybe?)

[graydude]

This is quite a big thing. The real issue here is how the language is going to work; is it going to be compiled or interpreted?

[haasn]

My implementation is definitely going to be interpreted, due to the runtime variable name resolution rules I've described. Of course, it could be compiled together with a very slow runtime (where every variable reference would perform a runtime call to resolve it)

[graydude]

If we're going to go interpreted, I think we should allow global execution.

[haasn]

It's probably the best solution. To solve the “functions need to be defined before they can be used” thing, a user could throw all of his functions into separate files and include them all at the top of the main file.

(We'd need a nice meme-based syntax for inclusion as well)

[graydude]

How about

install functions.gs

We could have header files called gentoo!

I think we should also take a look at the name of functions. Maybe we can call them Threads or something. But I'll make another issue out of this some time.

[haasn]

install sounds good. “install gentoo” should be reserved for something silly though, I don't know what yet.

I was thinking threads should be reserved for actual threads, eg. concurrency features that we may wish to implement later on.

Y'know, like /thread could mean “terminate the current thread” and all that. Maybe something else for functions, like “posts”?

[graydude]

/thread sounds cool.
We could also use an unboxing thread for including, but install sounds better to me.

If we use posts for it, you know we should have a captcha for creating a new function :)

[haasn]

Nah, but >captcha should be a built-in function which presents a captcha to the user (as popup if graphical environment is found, otherwise as ASCII art), and returns a bool depending on whether or not the user entered it correctly

[haasn]

I'm closing this issue since it looks like we'll be keeping global execution.