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Comment by Joker_vD

2 days ago

Okay, right now it's basically Pascal as it was described in Revised Report, only even more restricted. Which is... fine, I guess, you can still write a whole OS with something like that (without using pointers/addresses) as Per-Brinch Hansen demonstrated but it's... an acquired taste.

Are the actual references/pointers coming in the future?

Maybe Pascal without the syntax, sure. It’s still very early on.

I hope to not introduce references, because I’m going to give mutable value semantics a go. We’ll see though!