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vintage screwlisp accountDespite ample evidence to the contrary, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Ilive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ilive</a> (hmm, if I were also <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evil</a>, that would be a pallindrome as well as a visual collision) Fascinating (if I do say so) <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lispgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lispgames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/gamejam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamejam</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrospective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrospective</a> on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/itch_io" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#itch_io</a> <a href="https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/834615/princess-revisited" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/834615/princess-revisited</a> I am enormously happy with the { verb [ dobj [ prep iobj ] ] } x language dynamic, and how it shares your <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/repl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repl</a>, and their concerns are just... Different so they don't collide. I guess I get my <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/languageDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languageDesign</a> friends a little better now. Thoughts?

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)In some cases it's easy. If I see a function return value being added to, I know it's a number, so I can just error right there if it isn't (or convert to number if it's a string), and compile everything below that as a double. But can I avoid having variants at all? <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/programmingLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programmingLanguages</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/languageDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languageDesign</a>

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)I'd like to just hard-code the types in my bytecode, but the problem is that user-defined function calls can accept and return any type, and are dispatched to based on a dynamic messaging path, so could do completely different things and accept/return different types. Is there a simple, elegant way to have that and still hard-code types?<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/programmingLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programmingLanguages</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/languageDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languageDesign</a>

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)My scripting language has the concept of "everything is a string". So, to the user, it all looks like strings, but of course under the hood I want to infer types based on operations to make things faster. In the past, I've made my variables variants that can change type.<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/programmingLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programmingLanguages</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/languageDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languageDesign</a>

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