There's still a few kinks to work out, but infix operators are now working more or less perfectly. Along with a few other tweaks, this changes the code from something nasty and littered with function calls, to this:
//// TASKS.EPOCH//// Demonstration of the multiprocessing capabilities of Epoch//entrypoint : () -> (){ task(asyncjob1) { pi_task() } task(asyncjob2) { pi_task() } task(complexjob) { acceptmsg ( compute(integer(a), integer(b), integer(c), string(d)) => { message(sender(), completed(a * b + c, d)) } ) } message(asyncjob1, calculate("ignored")) message(asyncjob1, ignoredmessage("foo", "bar", 42)) message(asyncjob1, calculate(10000.0)) message(asyncjob2, calculate(50000.0)) message(complexjob, compute(5, 4, 2, "Filler")) debugwritestring("Please wait, async tasks running...") integer(baz, 42) debugwritestring("Main task: " . cast(string, baz)) responsemap(resulthandler) { result(real(foo)) => { debugwritestring("Pi result: " . cast(string, foo)) } completed(integer(a), string(b)) => { debugwritestring(b . cast(string, a)) } } acceptmsg(resulthandler) acceptmsg(resulthandler) acceptmsg(resulthandler)}pi_task : () -> (){ acceptmsg(calculate(real(limit)) => { message(sender(), result(pi(limit))) } )}pi : (real(denominator_limit)) -> (real(retval, 0.0)){ real(denominator, 1.0) boolean(isplus, true) do { real(div, 4.0 / denominator) if(isplus == true) { retval = retval + div } else { retval = retval - div } isplus = not(isplus) denominator = denominator + 2.0 } while(denominator < denominator_limit)}Since the lack of good infix operators was pretty much the number one complaint about the language, I trust that this will boost your enthusiasm accordingly [wink]
