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tnowacki

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    Comment #36521837

    PBS Spacetime did an episode on this just recently! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFLcmsjOBg In the video, they mention that the models we have for FTL (by bending spacetime) wo…

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    Comment #18081013

    No. The modes are there so that you don't need to completely switch what you are doing and do a fully copy when you need to memoize; it does not switch the underlying implementatio…

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    Comment #18080786

    I got unflagged! > but can't an object be considered immutable when all its fields are immutable and all its member functions (but the constructor perhaps) are pure? How exactly do…

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    Comment #18078549

    I'll look into removing it. If you want an overview of language features/design. I'd start with the docs: http://skiplang.com/docs/hello_world.html

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    Comment #18078483

    Where do you see a link to that? We had a specification in the works, but it fell horribly out of date. I wasn't sure that we kept it around

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    Comment #18078418

    IO is managed through very specific native extensions where updates to that IO source are able to be tracked outside of the language and fed back in. For example, we don't have any…

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    Comment #18078285

    No papers unfortunately. As far as results, we saw some great numbers for the effectiveness of the recomputation. The language is self hosted. And the type checker is currently inc…