vandesm14 / fns

My own functional programming language

Hi!

I'm Shane, a friendly TypeScript and Rust magician. I like computers and enjoy staring at them for hours on end.

fns's Issues

Everything is Data

Currently, there is an ambiguity in regards to when stuff is data or code. This is easily fixed by making everything be data until it is evaluated, this includes all primitives as well as identifiers, lists, and all other expressions.

• Nil
• Bool
• Int
• Float
• Str
• Array
• Ident
• List (see below)

On the subject of lists, they also require a rework such that they are split up into two separate kinds:

• Lists that are eagerly evaluated when they are encountered (...)
• Lists that are just data '(...)

Alongside this change, any list will become evaluable, which allows for anonymous functions. This does mean we require a specially handled structure to enable function arguments:

• Allow for function arguments '([args] (body))