Derw, a useful ML-like language for the web, status: Feburary 2022
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This is a short one this month, mostly composed of small fixes as I work my way through real world solutions with Derw. Changelog List prepending and unpacking As lists are heavily used in ML-languages, it was clear to me that there needs to be special syntax for lists, as alternatives are pretty heavy handed. For example, you might have some code that checks out the first element in a list. Without special syntax, you end up with code that looks like:
Derw, a useful ML-like language for the web, status: Feburary 2022
Derw, a useful ML-like language for the web…
Derw, a useful ML-like language for the web, status: Feburary 2022
This is a short one this month, mostly composed of small fixes as I work my way through real world solutions with Derw. Changelog List prepending and unpacking As lists are heavily used in ML-languages, it was clear to me that there needs to be special syntax for lists, as alternatives are pretty heavy handed. For example, you might have some code that checks out the first element in a list. Without special syntax, you end up with code that looks like: