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One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

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Re: One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

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virtualritz wrote: post #29

Why do not call a 'record' a 'struct'? Same with 'List' vs 'Vec'. And why are List, String & co uppercase? From what I gather these are built-in types the compiler knows? 'i32', not 'I32' but 'List' not 'list'? In Rust the case is clear cut: built-ins that the compiler 'knows' are lowercase, types expressed in Rust itself are PascalCase. Roto seems to mix this? Reads like Rust but then "differs subtley" where it (see…

This is something we've been backpedaling a bit indeed. 0.11 changed some things to look a lot more like Rust. The reason for this being different in the first place is that were not trying to make Rust-but-simpler necessarily. Or target audience with Rotonda is also not Rust programmers. So we've been exploring different syntax options.

Regarding the List type, as we optimize that, it will probably become a different data structure from a Vec. Also in the Roto-Rust boundary, you cannot pass in a normal Vec. So different names male sense there.

Regarding the case, small primitive types are lowercase. String and List are heap allocated and therefore somewhat different. I'm open to changing that but there is some logic to it.

Re: One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

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Post by virtualritz »

terts wrote: post #31
virtualritz wrote: post #29

Why do not call a 'record' a 'struct'? Same with 'List' vs 'Vec'. And why are List, String & co uppercase? From what I gather these are built-in types the compiler knows? 'i32', not 'I32' but 'List' not 'list'? In Rust the case is clear cut: built-ins that the compiler 'knows' are lowercase, types expressed in Rust itself are PascalCase. Roto seems to mix this? Reads like Rust but then "differs subtley" where it (see…

This is something we've been backpedaling a bit indeed. 0.11 changed some things to look a lot more like Rust. The reason for this being different in the first place is that were not trying to make Rust-but-simpler necessarily. Or target audience with Rotonda is also not Rust programmers. So we've been exploring different syntax options. Regarding the List type, as we optimize that, it will probably become a differen…

PascalCase == Heap allocated makes a lot of sense to me.

Even if one may argue that scripting languages usually abstract ideas like stack and heap away. :)

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