So once again I've dug out and dusted off the code for Epoch. The last several days have been pretty productive; I finished off the implementation and testing of algebraic sum types, and now the following program compiles and passes all tests:

[source]//
// LISTOFINTEGERS.EPOCH
//
// Simple implementation of a singly linked list holding integers
//


type listnode : list | nothing

structure list :
integer value,
listnode next


prepend : list ref thelist, integer value
{
list newlist = value, thelist
thelist = newlist
}


append : list ref thelist, integer value
{
append_recurse(thelist, thelist.next, value)
}


append_recurse : list ref thelist, nothing, integer value
{
list newlist = value, nothing
thelist.next = newlist
}

append_recurse : list ref thelist, list ref tail, integer value
{
append_recurse(tail, tail.next, value)
}


next : list ref thelist -> listnode tail = thelist.next
next : nothing -> listnode tail = nothing

checkvalue : list ref thelist, integer expected
{
assert(thelist.value == expected)
}

checkvalue : nothing, integer expected
{
print("Unexpected end of list")
assert(false)
}


dumplist : list ref thelist
{
listnode nn = thelist.next
dumplist(nn)
}

dumplist : nothing
{
}


entrypoint :
{
list numbers = 1, nothing

append(numbers, 2)
append(numbers, 3)
prepend(numbers, 0)

dumplist(numbers)

assert(numbers.value == 0)

listnode node = next(numbers)
checkvalue(node, 1)

node = next(node)
checkvalue(node, 2)

node = next(node)
checkvalue(node, 3)

print("Pass")
}[/source]

I'm pretty happy with that, considering I've been gone for the last several months (jeez... was it really April that I made the last release!?). (For the record, I haven't been slacking off... I just shipped this little game nobody's ever heard of during that time.)

Next up, I'm tackling generic programming. The easy part will be generic structures:

[source]structure testwrapper :
T contents,
string tag



entrypoint :
{
testwrapper intwrap = 42, "number"
testwrapper strwrap = "test", "text"

assert(intwrap.contents == 42)
assert(strwrap.contents == "test")

print("Pass")
}[/source]


It'll be much harder to implement generic functions:

[source]add : T a, T b -> T sum = a + b

entrypoint :
{
integer foo = add(40, 2)
integer bar = add(3.0, 0.14)

assert(foo == 42)
assert(bar == 3.14)

print("Pass")
}[/source]

Hopefully I can knock out the quick foundation of generic structures over this weekend (it's pretty trivial) and then dig into generic code gen later on.


So that's what's up.